Did you ever visit the museum before the renovation? This exhibit looks newer so I imagine it’s part of the effort to better acknowledge the brutal colonial period.
@nczoofan I never visited before the renovation so I cannot compare.
While I do have some interest in (colonial) history, my main motivation to visit the museum were the biodiversity-related exhibits, so I paid the most attention to those and looked at the historical and cultural exhibits quicker and a bit less detailed.
But from what I have seen they have made serious efforts to better acknowledge and discuss the atrocities and horrors that happened during the colonial period (and also before than during the slave trading era) rather than glorify the colonial history, and to draw attention away from elements of the museum that glorify colonialism, but have to be preserved for heritage reasons. The museum now also deliberately quite prominently displays art by artists of African descent.
