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Musée royal d'art ancien à Bruxelles
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium is one of the most famous museums in Belgium.

The museum

The museums are in the capital of Brussels in the downtown area on the Coudenberg. There are four museums. Two of them, the Museum of Ancient Art and the Museum of Modern Art, Brussels, are in the main building. The other two, the Constantin Meunier Museum and the Antoine Wiertz Museum, are dedicated to specific Belgian artists. They are much smaller and are a few kilometers from the city center.

The Royal Museum has over 20,000 drawings, sculptures, and paintings, which date from the early 15th century to the present. The museum has a large collection of Flemish painting, among them paintings by Bruegel and Rogier van der Weyden, Robert Campin, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens. The museum is also proud of its "Rubens Room", which houses more than 20 paintings by the artist.

The building

The main building, which now houses the Museum of Ancient Art, was built as the Palais des Beaux-Arts. It was designed by Belgian architect Alphonse Balat and paid for by King Leopold II. The building was completed in 1887.


Images for kids

  • Salon1830bxl

    The Brussels Salon of 1830 in the Palace of Charles of Lorraine, rendered by Jean-Baptiste Madou

  • StroobantsLorreinen

    The palace in 1846, illustration from Guide pittoresque dans Bruxelles

  • Museum Bruxelles 1880 Dumas

    Map of the palace and Museums district in 1880

  • The main hall of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 1

    View from the upper floor of the Oldmasters Museum

  • KMSKB 2011 Room Jordaens

    The Jacob Jordaens Room

  • Musée Magritte, Brussels, in June 2016

    Hôtel du Lotto or Hôtel Altenloh, home of the Magritte Museum

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    Entrance

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    Exhibition space

  • Hôtel Gresham - extérieur 5

    Hôtel des Brasseurs or Hôtel Gresham, home of the Fin-de-Siècle Museum

  • Govaerts Gresham Hall 1

    Entrance

  • Toulouse-Lautrec - Le Divan japonais, INHA

    Divan Japonais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

  • Louis Majorelle-Vitrine bibliothèque nénuphar

    Waterlily bookcase, Louis Majorelle, 1902

  • Musée Wiertz, Bruxelles

    Entrance to the Wiertz Museum

  • Le Triomphe de la lumière by Antoine Wiertz

    The Triumph of Light, Antoine Wiertz, 1862–1870

  • Elsene, Abdijstraat 59 (Voorgevel) (Eclectische stijl) (Oeuvre van architect Ernest Delune)

    Meunier Museum

  • Main Hall of the Meunier Museum – No. 2

    Main hall

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Museos Reales de Bellas Artes de Bélgica para niños

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