The Africa Museum in Tervuren offers an exhibition centred on the Congo Panorama, a 15-meter-long painting. It was originally created for the International Exposition 1913 in Ghent to glorify and promote Belgian colonialism in the Congo. Rather than just presenting it, the museum is contextualising it, showing how it is idealising colonial life while hiding the brutal exploitation of the Congolese people. Next to the panorama itself, the exhibition offers a wide range of explanations, historical photographs and audio material from colonial times and today's historians. The central approach of the organisers was to display the same painting Belgium once used to project a misleading picture and to tear it down through context, turning a previous propaganda tool into an education source for todays society.
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