ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the challenges that confront those who advocate the use of "critical museological" approaches, and begins with diachronic investigation through a tour of the museum prior to the arrival of the 2005 temporary exhibit. It analyses the renovations that accompanied the inauguration of the "Memory of Congo" exhibit. The chapter also provides material on the crafting of more permanent exhibits. It describes some analysis of 2006 displays, and these recent changes provide us with some examples of how curators and other audiences can reorganize displays and reconstruct "histories". The chapter presents the question of evaluating these evolutionary museological changes, positing whether these more radical post-2005 displays have finally exorcized Belgium's ghostly pasts. It also presents a critique of the Royal Museum for Central Africa and illustrates how this (post) colonial museum has become a dynamic, evolving site in the rhetorical struggle over how to remember Belgian and Congolese histories.
