The Museum in the World

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

Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) (MO.0.0.34590, photo R. Asselberghs, MRAC Tervuren ©)

Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS) (EO.1979.1.1371, photo J.-M. Vandyck, MRAC Tervuren ©)

Musée Dapper (Paris) (HO.2011.54.1, photo J. Van de Vyver, MRAC Tervuren © )

Kunst- Und Ausstellungshalle (Bonn) (EO.1967.63.224, photo R. Asselberghs, MRAC Tervuren ©)

Petit Palais (Paris) (EO.0.0.34879, photo J.-M. Vandyck, MRAC 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 31 December 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
• Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (Germany)
  Temporary exhibition "Lob der Torheit. Narren. Künstler. Heilige"
  On loan: 5 objects from Central Africa
  From 31 August 2012 - 2 December 2012
• Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini", Rome (Italy)
  Temporary exhibition "[S]oggetti migranti"
  On loan: 1 statue from Angola and 1 painting behind glass from Senegal
  From 20 September 2012 - 2 April 2013
• Musée bruxellois du Moulin et de l’Alimentation,Evere (Belgium)
  Temporary exhibition "Veggie Mania. Légumes oubliés et insolites"
  On loan: 6 objects from Central Africa
  From 5 October 2012 - 31 August 2013
• Musée Dapper, Paris (France)
  Temporary exhibition "Design en Afrique, s'asseoir, se coucher et rêver"
  On loan: 13 objects from Central Africa
  From 10 October 2012 - 14 July 2013
• Petit Palais, Paris (France)
  Temporary exhibition "Dieu(x). Modes d'emploi"
  On loan: 4 objects from Central Africa
  From 25 October 2012 - 3 February 2013
• Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures, Prague (Czech Republic)
  Temporary exhibition "Fetish Modernity"
  On loan: 35 objects
  From 19 June 2012 - 30 September 2012
  
  Travelling to: 
  Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna (Austria) from 7 November 2012 - 4 March 2013
  Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden (The Netherlands) from May 2013 - July 2013
  Etnografiska museet, Stockholm (Sweden) from October 2013 - January 2014