Collections
According to the website of the museum,, the collection contains:
- 10,000,000 animals
- 250,000 rock samples
- 120,000 ethnographic objects
- 20,000 maps
- 56,000 wood samples
- 8,000 musical instruments
- 350 archives, including some of Henry Morton Stanley's journals
The herbarium collection of the Congo Museum was transferred to that of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium in 1934.
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