28 Your chance to focus on You can listen to audio You can touch these objects the themes of Rituals and recordings throughout the Ceremonies, in the big entire exhibition hall. Under the microscope exhibition hall next door. 1 - Give your ear a workout You can do whatever you like: Interactive touchscreen and learn how tonal play, learn, or simply mess languages work. around! Audio excerpt - Learn Swahili. 27 African history since the arrival 29 Going to school, 30 Charms to protect children. 2 What does the cow do? 3 Slit drum. 4 Kalimba. Please do not touch the of the Europeans has often been now and then. animals on display. Only painful. For a long time Africans the pieces with a hands-on were viewed as inferior, and the symbol can be handled. natural resources of their continent were drawn off to the Great Powers. Leuvensesteenweg

WC WC 29 2 5 Rituals and Ceremonies Languages and Music 1 5 Musical Structures. 3 4 6 28 Studio 6 Dance the rumba! Studio 6+ 30 Rumba 7 Afropea, meeting place and documentation centre where the 26 The old wall maps show ‘voyages 25 Access to welcome pavilion of discovery’ through unexplored Afropea story of the African diaspora is 27 presented like a family album. Africa. But Africans already knew Long these places and had travelled 7 through them long before! History 26

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24 8 Unrivalled art Colonial History Colonial Lieu de memoire and Independence Mineral 25 Look for the oldest tooth in Africa! Cabinet 9 9 23 9 9

The Resource Landscapes 8 Moseka, the traffic robot. 11 Paradox and Biodiversity 15 9 Use a digital animation to look at the Imagery 22 Rotunda 19 18 17 16 12 many animals who live in the different layers of the forest. Taxolab 24 The museum as it was 100 years ago. 21 20 14 13 10 10 Aquarium.

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14 Under the microscope: - Face to face with parasites. 16 Giraffe. - Face to face with the malaria mosquito.

18 Feel the difference between 17 Ever wanted to touch the hide 23 Central Africa subsoil. 21 Look at the most beautiful 20 Put on your Virtual Reality the sharp, pointy teeth of of an elephant or buffalo? wood samples close up. headsets and enjoy an carnivores and the flat teeth Here (and only here!) is your of herbivores. chance. 22 Scale models: immersive experience in - the Congo River. the rainforest or the vibrant - the Inga Dam. city of Kinshasa. 15 See and feel the differences between the hands of a human, a chimpanzee, 19 Elephant. and a gorilla.

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