Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday inclusive:
13.30 – 17.00 h.

Groups:
customer made programmes after reservation in advance

Childrens Partie: reservation in advance

Closed: on Mondays, New Years day, Carneval, first Easter day, first Whitsun day, first Christmas day.

Openining hours library
Tuesday to Sunday inclusive from
13.30 – 17.00 h.

Entrance
Adults: € 5,50
Children younger then 12 years: € 3,-
Senior people (65 +): € 4,50

Divided over three different floors in the Africa Centre, young people and adults get the chance to imagine they are in West Africa for a day.
 
Art
The art division? on the top floor shows a collection of rare African art objects, like beautiful sculptures, ritual masks and unique gold weights. A special section shows a temporary exhibition, which is changed about three times a year.

Daily Life in Africa
The ground floor is dedicated to daily life in Ghana. By means of a modern interactive environment you will have the opportunity to learn about different sides of life in West Africa :

•compare city accommodation with that of a country village 
•visit shops, banks and markets 
•discover the tremendous wild nature

 
•learn about religious life 
•put yourself in the place of a school child 
•Want to know more? Then use our internet café.

It can be visited in a renewed (refurbished?) setting as from March 2006. Experience the atmosphere, the warmth and life in West Africa.

Learning & Playing
In the Learning & Playing section on the lower ground floor are the education rooms. Children and adults can work with waste material in the Recycling Store. You can also decorate masks in the mask room. There also is a library with a vast amount of information on Africa. You can look in our online catalogue here.

Gift Shop
There is a gift shop where you can buy souvenirs from Africa, varying from sculptures to post cards and jewellery to musical instruments.

The Africa Centre: a museum in which you can really get to know West Africa.

1959
The year that father Van Trigt of the Society for African Misson, together with other members of this missionary order, went to the notary’s office to establish the Africa Centre.

Purpose
To create public interest in African people and affairs.

Means
A collection of ancestorial sculptures, masks, objects for general usage, fertility statues and gold weights, which have been collected by the missionaries in West Africa in the first half of the twentieth century and their experiences there.

Development
In the beginning the museum was in Aalbeek, but it was not long before the Africa Centre moved to Cadier en Keer. First to the building near Caves Cadier and then to the Missiehuis. From there the museum was placed more and more in the former school wing and has developed to what it is at present. A Centre with three floors devoted to Africa. On the ground floor there is a modern interactive exhibition of daily life, upstairs is a colourful exposition which shows the beauty of African culture and downstairs Africa inspires you to make masks, toys and music yourself. In the library you
can look up things. In the beginning it was the object, then mankind behind it. Nowadays the Africa Centre tries to bring out the object and man as well.

Employees
In the first 25 years the museum was directed by the fathers, in the eighties layman got involved in the organisation and now it’s a mixture of paid employees and volunteers, students on work placements and members of the Society for African Mission (all together about 75 people).