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Museums

  • Musée Magritte Museum

    Discover this essential cultural centre in the heart of Brussels. The Magritte Museum presents an outstanding collection of works by Belgian Surrealist artist René Magritte (1898-1967), one of the world's most famous  artists.  The collection of over 200 works is the largest in the world. This museum, with its 2500 m2 of contemporary museography, is the international reference centre for the work of this multidisciplinary artist.

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  • Alphonse Mucha : “The Nature”, 1899-1900. Gillion Crowet Transfer in lieu of Payment to the Brussels-Capital Region, 2006. Collection in Trust of the RMFAB

    Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum

    All art history fans will enthuse about this new museum that is dedicated to the 1900s, when Brussels, the capital of Europe, was a unique artistic crossroads and the capital of Art Nouveau. This sanctuary of cultural history hosts paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints, sculptures, photographs, films, models and decorative objets d'art.

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  • Peter Paul Rubens and workshop : “The Crowning of Mary”. Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, inv. 162

    Musée Oldmasters Museum

    The remarkable collection of Old Master, witnessing to a rich and creative past, covers a period running from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Here you will find paintings of exceptional value by the Flemish Primitives, along with many artists from the fertile periods of the Flemish Renaissance and Baroque: Memling, Bosch, Bruegel, Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens and others...

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  • Panamarenko (Henri Van Herwegen) : “Thundercloud”, 1971. Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, inv. 12151

    Musée Modern Museum

    The collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, from David to Panamarenko, Alechinsky, Bacon, Dalí  or Fabre, underwent an extensive upgrade by being redeployed in three multidisciplinary areas.

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  • Constantin Meunier : “The broken Crucible”, 1884. Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, inv. 10000 / 171

    Musée Meunier Museum

    Unfairly overlooked by the general public, the home and studio of painter and sculptor Constantin Meunier (1831-1905) in Ixelles presents a hundred and fifty at times monumental works, and bronzes of all sizes. The creations of this artist inspired by the industrial, political and social developments of late 19th century Belgium provide a realistic view of the world of work and industry of his day.

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  • Antoine Wiertz : “The Beautiful Rosine / The Two Young Girls ”, 1847. Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, inv. 1935

    Musée Wiertz Museum

    Immerse yourself in the particular world of painter, sculptor and writer Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865), one of Belgium's most controversial Romantic artists. This visionary had this impressive studio built in 1850 at the expense of the Belgian State. His monumental paintings, inspired by the great masters of the past such as Rubens, Michelangelo and Raphael, hang there alongside his many small sketches.

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The collection

The collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium covers a period extending from the 15th to the 21st centuries.

Museum Shop

The Museum Shop is one of the most attractive art book stores in Brussels ... but is so much more th…

Supporting the Museums

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Education

Educateam is a team of enthusiastic art historians who offer guided tours, lectures and workshops in…