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Private museum and library devoted to bookbinding: Brussels Museum of Industry and Labour – La Fonderie: Molenbeek-Saint-Jean: History - Industry: Displays machinery from important local industries and exhibits relating to the area's economic and social history. Located in an old foundry. Brussels Museum of the Mill and Food [Wikidata] Evere ...
The Royal Library of Belgium (Dutch: Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə ˌbiblijoːˈteːk fɑm ˈbɛlɣijə]; French: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique [biblijɔtɛk ʁwajal də bɛlʒik]; German: Königliche Bibliothek Belgiens [ˈkøːnɪklɪçə biblioˈteːk ˈbɛlɡiəns], abbreviated KBR and sometimes nicknamed Albertine in French or Albertina in Dutch) is the ...
This list of museums in Republic of Ireland contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts was transferred to the basement of the Palace of Industry in 1835, facing numerous closures due to the impacts of various wars. [8] In addition to the school, the Royal Library of Belgium was eventually housed in one of the wings of the Palace of Industry in 1837, opened to the public on 21 May 1839. [5]
The museum presents four key industry sectors that have created or transformed products made in Brussels: the metal industry, woodworking, textile manufacturing and food processing. Each module includes two showcase machines that represent the technology and the companies that made and used them, as well as the working conditions.
The Museum of Modern Art was closed in 1959 and the "Old Court" was partially demolished in 1960 for the construction of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR). From 1962 to 1978, the temporary exhibition halls of the five-level neoclassical Hôtel du Lotto (also known as the Hôtel Altenloh), on the Place Royale/Koningsplein , were used.
James Arthur Bennett, FSA, FRAS (2 April 1947 – 28 October 2023 [3]) was a British museum curator and historian of science. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] Bennett's interests lay in the history of practical mathematics from the 16th century to the 18th century, scientific instruments and astronomy .
The Museum of Irish Industry, founded in 1854, originally an extension of the Museum of Economic Geology, was a museum dedicated to the exhibition of the various, display-worthy materials from, and donated by, the industries of mining and manufacturing established in Ireland. In addition, the museum gave lectures on the subject, and related ...