BASTOGNE, Belgium -- As the attack grew near on Dec. 27, 1944, families in Bastogne, Belgium, about an hour and a half southeast of Brussels, evacuated the city, moving from cellar to cellar to ...

In the darkest corner of a grand museum that looks like a neo-classical palace lies a not-so-secret room. It is filled with statues of Congolese people, which have been regarded as racist, that ...

Belgium's Africa Museum will reopen to the public on Sunday after five years of renovations designed to modernize the museum from an exhibition of pro-colonial propaganda to one that is ...

BRUSSELS — Belgium’s Africa Museum, once seen as Europe’s last unreconstructed museum of the colonial era, reopened Saturday after a five-year, $73 million revamp.

The massed ranks of empty chairs at the Belgian World War One exhibition - one for each country and region that sent soldiers to die here a century ago - have been replaced by just two to mark the ...

TERVUREN, Belgium (AP) — For decades, Belgian schoolchildren had come to the Africa Museum near Brussels to marvel at the stuffed animals, drums, ritual masks and minerals that glowed in the ...

Also highly recommended: Visit the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in nearby Homburg, Belgium (5 kilometers from the Remember Museum.) Nearly 8,000 U.S. war dead from WWII rest at ...

BRUSSELS — The years-long renovation of Belgium’s grand museum devoted to Central Africa was intended to overhaul an institution that was packed with racist images of Africans as savage ...

Belgium’s leading art museum has returned a painting it held for 71 years to the great-grandchildren of a Jewish couple whose property was looted by the Nazis after they fled on the eve of World ...

BRUSSELS — The Royal Museum for Central Africa opened here in 1897 to celebrate Belgium’s new colonial triumph — the creation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II. His reign over the ...

Item 1 of 2 Two wooden chairs, one sent from Ukraine and one from Russia, symbolising casualties from Russia's war in Ukraine a century after "the war to end all wars" had ended, are shown on ...