Guided tour

During this interactive tour, students will discover how art and propaganda intertwined to create a colonial illusion. Like true investigators and fact-checkers, they will decipher the messages hidden within the artwork.

What makes this tour unique:

• Active participation: observation, discussions, and analysis in small groups.
• Hands-on workshops: handling archival documents, contemporary quotes and testimonies.
• Critical thinking: from colonial propaganda to AI-generated images—how can we recognise manipulation?
• Creative reflection: students connect past and present through contemporary art and discussion.

After the tour, classes can explore the museum freely and contemplate the panorama in the Crocodile Room – a perfect opportunity to reflect on what they have seen and felt.
 

A combination of learning and experience

This tour is an ideal activity for exploring the topics of history, representation, critical thinking, and global citizenship.

Book your school visit and give your students a unique opportunity to open their eyes – to both the past and the present.
 

The tour examines what the image shows and what it hides. Which voices are heard, and which ones are silenced?

Learn how the panorama obscures violence, exploitation, and uprisings, and how it functions as ‘fake news’ well before the term was coined. 

Through contributions from artists, experts, and researchers, the exhibition brings the official narrative up against long-muted voices. It invites you to deconstruct the colonial imagination by observing it critically, questioning propaganda, and reflecting on the legacy of colonisation whose influence is still widely felt today.

Prepare yourself for a visit that blends art, history, and reflection, and for an open dialogue on how images shape our perception of the world.
 

The tour examines what the image shows and what it hides. Which voices are heard, and which ones are silenced?

Learn how the panorama obscures violence, exploitation, and uprisings, and how it functions as ‘fake news’ well before the term was coined. 

Through contributions from artists, experts, and researchers, the exhibition brings the official narrative up against long-muted voices. It invites you to deconstruct the colonial imagination by observing it critically, questioning propaganda, and reflecting on the legacy of colonisation whose influence is still widely felt today.

Prepare yourself for a visit that blends art, history, and reflection, and for an open dialogue on how images shape our perception of the world.
 

Only in Dutch or French