The Tervuren section was hosted in the Palace of the Colonies (although there was only one colony), designed by Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe. In the main hall, Georges Hobé designed a distinctive wooden Art Nouveau structure to evoke the forest, using Bilinga wood, an African tree. The interior exhibition displayed ethnographic objects, stuffed animals and in the "Hall of the Great Cultures" Congo's most important export products were displayed: coffee, cacao and tobacco.