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CONSULTATION RULES AND COSTS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY LIBRARY, MAP ARCHIVE, AND GEOLOGY AND MINING ARCHIVES
ACCESS Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Consultation of the Geology and Mining Archives is by appointment only. While not required, an appointment to consult the library or the map archive is highly recommended in order to ensure the Museum is open and relevant staff members are present. CONSULTATION REQUIREMENTS Consultation of published documents (map archive and library) Documents can be prepared in advance of your appointment. Consultation is free of charge. Photocopies are permitted at a cost of €0.25 per A4 page and €0.5 per A3 page. Maps can be purchased for the price listed in the catalogue (see http://www.africamuseum.be/museum/research/natural-sciences/earth-sciences/cartography/doc/CatalogueMapsENG.pdf). Copies of limited editions or unique publications can be obtained; price per copy depends on document size and reproduction form. When consultation of a series of documents for research purposes is requested, the documents are prepared by our specialists in advance of the consultation appointment. Cost of preparation and consultation assistance is €250. Consultation of unpublished documents (geology and mining archives) The archives are not open to the public and payment of a consultation fee is required. The archive consultation fee is €300 per day per person. No more than two persons at a time can consult the archives. Consultation takes place in the presence of an RMCA staff member, who prepares requested documents in advance and provides consultation assistance on the appointed date(s). Reproduction of archival documents by any means is prohibited. Selecting archive files for consultation is carried out by using our database to produce a list of files corresponding to your selection criteria (location, subject, etc.). Searches concerning the Democratic Republic of Congo can be conducted at www.DRCmining.org, which links to Museum archives and those of various Congolese institutes. All search criteria should be communicated when making the appointment so that we can conduct our own search; our experience enables us to refine search results and reduce the number of irrelevant files, which helps us prepare documents in advance of the consultation appointment. Although we no longer produce reports on our archives (owing to a lack of staff), we can propose - provided staff is available - a more rigorous sorting procedure for a search in our database that results in a long list of possibilities. This more rigorous sorting refines results and reduces their number, and costs €250 per day; we usually provide a cost estimate for the entire project in question. Remarks Most of these archives concern the pre-independence era of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. Most archival documents are in French. To expand the database, nearly 5,000 files were reviewed very rapidly in order to record places, chemical elements, and other very general information on their content, but excepting a few particular cases, no further examination of them was undertaken by our departments; while it's possible to select a file based on these simple sorting criteria, actual file content is not indicated. Archive file consultation does not always result in finding the sought after information, in which case the Museum cannot be held responsible. Notice 1 A certain level of geological knowledge is necessary to consult the archives successfully. The Museum itself cannot provide such support but it can provide a list of consultants who do, or who write on-demand briefings. 2 All information given to our departments in the context of these consultations is not disseminated, as we are bound by the professional confidentiality required of our task. 3 The Museum cannot request visas or provide documentation in support of such requests. Rules and forms of payment Payment for consultations is made at the end of each working day, unless specified otherwise by our services. For more than three hours of consultation on any given day, a full day (€300) will be billed; for less, half the daily fee (€150) will be billed. In the case of pre-consultation preparation carried out by the Museum, such work will begin once the Museum receives the payment amount agreed to in advance. Payments must be made in euro before our Accounting Department closes (4 p.m.). Cash and credit cards are accepted; in the case of advance payment, bank transfer to the Museum’s account or online payment is accepted (see below). At the time of payment, the visitor will be provided a bill. Additional time is required to print a receipt, which our administration will send by post to the address provided by the visitor. Museum bank information :
All bank fees are paid by the client. ACCESS TO THE DEPARTMENT
Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (MRAC) The Royal Museum for Central Africa is made up of several buildings. The Department of Geology is located in the building A (Colonial Palace), with the entrance at door A1 (see arrow map below). The carpark is in front of the Colonial Palace.
A. The Colonial Palace is the oldest building of the museum. It accomodates a reception room and also scientific departments. The Department of Geology as well as the section of Prehistory and Archeology are sheltered in the south wing. The north wing shelters the sections of Entomology and Invertebrates non-insects.
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