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The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (French: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, pronounced [myze ʁwajo de boz‿aʁ də bɛlʒik]; Dutch: Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, pronounced [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə myːˈzeːjaː voːr ˈsxoːnə ˈkʏnstə(ɱ) vɑm ˈbɛlɣijə]) are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium.
The building housing the Centre for Fine Arts was designed by the architect Victor Horta in Art Deco style, and completed in 1929 at the instigation of the banker and patron of the arts Henry Le Bœuf. It includes exhibition and conference rooms, a cinema and a concert hall, which serves as home to the Belgian National Orchestra (BNO).
It was formerly called the Royal Museum of Ancient Art (French: Musée royal d'Art ancien; Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Oude Kunst). It is housed in the main building of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts (Palace of Fine Arts) located at 3, rue de la Régence / Regentschapsstraat. This site is served by the tram stop Royale / Koning (on lines 92 ...
The Magritte Museum (French: Musée Magritte; Dutch: Magritte Museum) is an art museum in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the work of the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Museums of the Far East (Japanese Tower and Chinese Pavilion) (part of Royal Museums of Art and History) City of Brussels : Art: Fin-de-Siècle Museum: City of Brussels Art Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium: City of Brussels: Fine art: Major art gallery featuring fine art from the 15th to the 20th century by Belgian and international artists
The Museum of Ixelles (French: Musée d'Ixelles; Dutch: Museum van Elsene), also called the (Municipal) Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles (French: Musée (communal) des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles; Dutch: (Gemeentelijk) Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Elsene), is a municipal art museum in Brussels, Belgium, focusing on Belgian art from the 19th and 20th centuries.
It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. [1] The museum, inaugurated on 6 December 2013, partly replaces the Royal Museum of Modern Art (French: Musée royal d'Art moderne; Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Moderne Kunst), closed on 1 February 2011, and is partially housed in its former halls. [2]
The new museum complex at the Cinquantenaire was named the Royal Museums of Decorative and Industrial Arts. That name was changed in 1912 to the Royal Museums of the Cinquantenaire, but, to prevent confusion, had to be changed yet again when the Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History was also established at the Cinquantenaire in 1922 ...