The Museum of Ethnography in Brussels, Belgium is a scientific museum, housing items relating to ethnography, or cultural anthropology of many primitive and past cultures around the world. It was the resting place of the Idol of the Broken Ear that was brought back to Europe by A.J. Walker. In The Broken Ear, the idol was stolen from the museum by Rodrigo Tortilla, but it ended up being returned to the museum by Tintin at the very end of the story.