Donation and installation of "Lady Alice", Académie des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa, DR Congo
Planners & Searchers: Lady Alice
"...[A]s the driver argued why he would not take me to the Ethnographic Museum, I imagined the current condition of the boat and where it might be in need of attention..."
The original boat, which the explorer Henry Morton Stanley in 1874 used to explore the Congo River, today rests in the courtyard of the Ethnographic Museum in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo. As shown by Stanley’s own illustrations and notes, the boat could be broken down in to ve parts and thus carried over land by just twenty men.
Today "Lady Alice" is reportedly in a severe state of decay. The museum is located on a hill above the Congo River. The site is currently inaccessible to the public due to its strategic military signi ficance.
