The Museum in the World

The Museum for African Art (EO.0.0.39657-1 RMCA Tervuren)

Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) (MO.0.0.34590 RMCA Tervuren)

Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS) (EO.1979.1.1371 RMCA Tervuren)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (EO.0.0.43848 RMCA Tervuren)

Musée Dapper (EO.1971.67.1 RMCA Tervuren)

Europalia Brazil RMAH (EO.1992.5.45 RMCA Tervuren)

The Royal Museum for Central Africa lends collection items to museums and exhibitions all over the world on a regular basis. Currently objects of the collections of the RMCA are loaned to the following museums and institutions:

• The Museum for African Art, New York (USA)
  Travelling exhibition "Grass Roots : African Origins of an American Art'"
  On loan: 4 wickerwork objects from Central Africa
  Opening of the last venue in New York 2012
•  Musée bruxellois du Moulin et de l’Alimentation, Evere (Belgium)
  Long term loan for permanent exhibition
  On loan: 4 objects from West and Central Africa
  From 2009 - 2015 
• Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), Phoenix, Arizona (USA)
  Long term loan for permanent exhibition
  On loan: 104 ethnographic musical instruments
  From 30 October 2009 to 1 October 2020
• Brussels Airport, Zaventem (Belgium)
  Temporary exhibition in VIP area
  On loan: 1 Pende mask
  From 1 January 2011 - 31 December 2012
• Parc d'aventures scientifiques (PASS), Frameries (Belgium)
  Temporary exhibition "Argent"
  On loan: 25 objects from East, West and Central Africa
  From 4 April 2003 to 15 July 2012
• The MAS (Museum Aan de Stroom), Antwerp (Belgium)
  Semi-permanent exhibitions - "Display of Power" and "Life and Death"
  On loan: 34 objects from the Oceania collection (Polynesia, Melanesia) and 5 objects from the Kayapó Indians (Brazil)
  From 1 May 2011 - 19 August 2013
• Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  Long term loan for permanent exhibition
  On loan: 2 objects from Central Africa
  From 1 May 2011 - 1 May 2016
• Royal Museums of Art and History (MRAH), Brussels (Belgium)
  Temporary exhibition "The progress came from the sky. Sabena"  
  On loan: 1 pagne Sabena
  From 30 September 2011 - 26 February 2012
• Musée Dapper, Paris (France)
  Temporary exhibition "Masquerades and Carnivals"
  On loan: 8 masks from Central and West Africa
  From 5 October 2011 - 15 July 2012
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York (USA)
  Temporary exhibition "Heroic Africans: Legendary leaders, Iconic sculptures"
  On loan: 7 objects from Central Africa
  From 21 September 2011 - 29 January 2012
  
  Travelling to The Museum Rietberg, Zürich (Switzerland)
  From 26 February 2012 - 3 June 2012
   
• Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  Temporary exhibition "Death matters"
  On loan: 2 objects from Central Africa
  From 2 November 2011 - 9 September 2012
• Royal Museum of Art and History (RMAH), Brussels (Belgium)
  Temporary exhibition "Indios no Brasil" - Europalia Brazil
  On loan: 3 objects from the Kayapó, Central Brazil
  From 13 October 2011 - 15 April 2012
• Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (France)
  Temporary exhibition "Exhibitions. L'invention du sauvage"
  On loan: 1 poster of the 1910 World Expo Brussels
  From 29 November 2011 - 3 June 2012