Museums - Musée de la Médecine de Bruxelles

The Musée de la Médecine is located in the heart of the Erasmus campus of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. It was recently created and houses a collection of more than 1,500 objects, which began to be acquired through the initiative of the museum’s current curator, Professor Appelboom. The first non-European objects to enter the collection were acquired in 1998 in conjunction with a show on medicine in Pre-Columbian cultures. They have since been placed on permanent display on the top floor of the building in a sober and elegant exhibition space. This collection includes primarily archaeological material from the cultures of Central and South America. The museum is planning a show on African medicine for 2004, and is adding to its collection of African statues and masks, which are currently kept in storage.