Claim: The Royal Museum for Central Africa was established in 1898 in Tervuren, Belgium in order to showcase King Leopold II's Congo Free State in the 1897 World Exhibition.
Evidence: The Royal Museum for Central Africa or RMCA (Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika or KMMA; French: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale or MRAC; German: Königliches Museum für Zentralafrika or KMZA), colloquially known as the Africa Museum, is an ethnography and natural history museum situated in Tervuren in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, just outside Brussels. Royal Museum for Central Africa 1898 Tervuren, Belgium Ethnography, Natural History and History museum It was built to showcase King Leopold II's Congo Free State in the 1897 World Exhibition.