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Musée royal d'art ancien à Bruxelles
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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A view of the museum building.

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are a group of very famous art museums in Belgium. They hold a huge collection of amazing artworks, from old paintings to modern sculptures.

Exploring the Museums

The museums are located in Brussels, the capital city of Belgium. You can find them right in the downtown area, on a place called the Coudenberg. There are actually four different museums that make up this group.

Two of these museums are found in the main building:

  • The Museum of Ancient Art
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Brussels

The other two museums are a bit smaller and are located a few kilometers away from the city center. These museums are special because they focus on the work of specific Belgian artists:

  • The Constantin Meunier Museum
  • The Antoine Wiertz Museum

The Royal Museums have more than 20,000 drawings, sculptures, and paintings. These artworks date from the early 1400s all the way up to today.

Amazing Art Collections

The museum has a very large collection of Flemish painting. This type of art comes from a historical region called Flanders. You can see paintings by famous artists like Bruegel, Rogier van der Weyden, Robert Campin, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens.

One of the most special parts of the museum is the "Rubens Room." This room is dedicated to the famous artist Peter Paul Rubens. It proudly displays more than 20 of his paintings!

The Main Building

The main building of the Royal Museums is where the Museum of Ancient Art is located today. It was originally built as the Palais des Beaux-Arts, which means "Palace of Fine Arts."

A Belgian architect named Alphonse Balat designed this beautiful building. King Leopold II of Belgium paid for its construction. The building was finished in 1887.


Images for kids

  • Salon1830bxl

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

  • StroobantsLorreinen

    The palace in 1846, an 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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