The culminating point of the new Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan, Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark and its ceremonial buildings were laid out on a remnant of the Sonian Forest known as the Linthout plateau, formerly used for manoeuvres by the Civil Guard. At last, Brussels would have a site fit for a proper national exhibition! Over the years, the park acquired a variety of decorative monuments, some evoking Belgium’s presence in the Congo in no uncertain terms. But what would the park have looked like without the former Belgian colony? With a notebook in one hand and a pencil in the other, get set to explore Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark through the prism of colonial history.