In 2006, Stéphane Beel Architects won the competition for the redevelopment of the site of the African Museum in Telferen, initiated by the Belgian Architectural Agency. As a result, a multidisciplinary team led by Stéphane Beel Architects developed a new master plan for the African Museum and its surroundings.
In the first phase of the master plan execution, the existing museum building was restored and expanded in 2017. In addition to the reorganization of the museum space, children's studios, logistics and ancillary spaces, new exhibition rooms were provided. To this were added: a restaurant, a bistro, a reception, a new children's studio, a museum shop, an auditorium and a meeting room. The reorganization and expansion of the museum building was carried out in order to preserve as much as possible the immediate environment of the museum building and to connect it again to the French Garden. 
All of the museum's secondary functions, such as reception, shop, and cafeteria, were removed from the layout of the earlier museum, optimized, and housed in the new building. This creates more space in the museum building for new permanent exhibitions.
The existing museum building has been kept as original as possible. Both the original entrance to the museum and the open, covered rotunda of the inner courtyard have been reinterpreted; In addition to the meticulous restoration, they have deliberately formed a number of foreign interventions that can be read as critical annotations to the original building. The new entrance pavilion is carefully arranged with the façade of the museum building, located at the border of two gardens from different periods. 
The visitor center and museum shop on the ground floor of the pavilion are located on the first floor of the park. In the restaurant on the ground floor, visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of the French garden and the museum building.
The temporary exhibition room is also located on the ground floor, as it extends between the new building and the museum building. Three exhibition rooms are arranged in a row along the public gallery. These black box spaces can be flexibly subdivided into an auditorium and two separate rooms, or transformed into a large exhibition room by moving walls.
From the entrance pavilion, visitors reach the restored museum building through a promenade. In doing so, they first pass through a wide strip of sunlight, which is a point of direction, and then walk along one of the exhibits in the museum's collection – a large canoe reminiscent of the Congo River – in the direction of another point of light in the distance: the courtyard of the sunken museum building, bringing in light and direction. 
The exhibition rooms are skillfully equipped with new technologies that keep the museum building up to date in terms of the preservation and presentation of the collections. The technologies are complex and integrate almost seamlessly: improved thermal isolation and airtightness, incident light management, invisible air quality control in the new exhibition platform, accessibility levels and fire safety interventions are all elements that make the exhibition possible. A new way to exhibit in existing monuments without tampering with monuments and their intrinsic values. February** Dynamic Incentive Program