fficials say they have thousands of items in their collections
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo will officially inaugurate a new national museum in kinshasa on saturday.
The new facility, funded by the South Korean International Cooperation Agency, took three years to build and was completed in june.
Hundreds of items portraying life and culture are on display.
Officials have expressed their hope of expanding the collection with items taken abroad during the colonial era.
A particular focus of restitution is items in the Royal museum for central africa in Tervuren, Belgium, which re-opened last year.
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