Art & History Museum
Grand exhibition palace of antiquities and decorative arts, home to a six-tonne Easter Island moai.
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This guide to the Art & History Museum in Brussels follows Henri Lavachery and Alfred Métraux, sent to Easter Island in 1934 to study its stone giants, and the offer Chile made them when their ship home arrived. It traces the five months they spent mapping the moai and listening to Rapa Nui stories, and the choice Lavachery made when asked what to take back. Look closely at the statue's weathered face, worn by both the Pacific wind and the journey that followed.
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