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Tervuren
Tervuren is a town in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, east of Brussels. The colonial section of the Brussels International Exposition of 1897 was held there, and it became the home of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, opened in its present building in 1910 and funded in part from Leopold II's profits from the Congo. The museum reopened as the AfricaMuseum in 2018.
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