Congo Free State, nor during Belgium's larger colonial era. The Guardian reported in July 2002 that, after initial outrage by Belgian historians over the popular history book King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild that gives his view of the Congo Free State in what some critics called a "tendentious diatribe", the state-funded museum would finance an investigation into Hochschild's allegations. The resulting, more modern exhibition The Memory of Congo (February–October 2005) tried to tell the story of the Congo Free State before it became a Belgian colony and a less one-sided view of the Belgian colonial era. The exhibition was praised by the international press, with French newspaper Le Monde claiming that "the museum has done better than revisit a particularly stormy page in history...[it] has pushed the public to join it in looking into the reality of colonialism." Hochschild himself had a mixed critique of the renovated museum. Gallery See also Atrocities in the Congo Free State Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–90 Brussels Conference Act of 1890 Archives Africaines of the Belgian SPF Affaires étrangères, Commerce extérieur et Coopération au Développement Belgium in "the long nineteenth century" References Notes Bibliography Issued by the museum About the museum in English in other languages External links Official museum site Collection etnomusicology Palaces in Belgium Museums in Flemish Brabant Natural history museums African art museums Museums established in 1898 1898 establishments in Belgium Ethnographic museums in Europe Art museums and galleries in Belgium Forestry museums Forestry in Belgium Central Africa Organisations based in Belgium with royal patronage Tervuren Leopold II of Belgium Belgian colonisation in Africa Congo Free State Archives in Belgium World's fair architecture in Belgium