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Did you know that in Brussels there are about 100 museums ? It would evidently be impossible to visit them all in just a few days. Nonetheless, we would like to give you a little foretaste of the absolute must-sees.
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© Musée du Cinéma
Forty displays trace the early days of cinema i.e. the main inventions that led to the discovery of cinematography by the Lumière brothers. Most of the displays have a mechanism allowing the visitor to activate the devices on show and understand how they work. The two adjoining projection rooms present the history of cinema courtesy of five evening projections each day : the first room (125 seats) presents 3 films "talkies" daily. The second is every night (at 7 pm and 9 pm) devoted to silent films of 1900-1930, with live piano accompaniment).
Address:
Rue Baron Horta 9
1000 BRUXELLES
Tel.:+32 (0) 2 507 83 70
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© Le Clockarium, photo J.-J. Rousseau
A beautiful Brussels' Art Deco-residence houses the Clockarium, an exceptional museum dedicated to mantelpiece ornaments of earthenware. Over 1200 earthenware clocks show the decorative arts, the history of clock-making and a typical Belgian way of fashion.
Address:
Boulevard Reyers 163
1030 SCHAERBEEK
Tel.:+32 (0) 2 732 08 28
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© MRBAB
The live-in studio that Constantin Meunier (1831-1905) built in 1899 at the edge of the Bois de la Cambre, close to the homes of his artist chums, Théo Van Rysselberghe and Isidore Verheyden, was purchased for the nation in 1936 by the artist's daughter and niece and taken over by the Museum of Modern Arts in 1978. Upon his death at the age of 74, Constantin Meunier left behind numerous works (around 800 in total) : paintings, sculptures, water-colours and drawings. Their theme : realism, social concerns. Art in perfect tune with the new industrial age.
Address:
Rue de l'Abbaye 59
1050 IXELLES
Tel.:+32 (0) 2 648 44 49
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© Maison d'Erasme
The history of the museum at the Erasmus House is closely tied in with that of the Chapter of Anderlecht (16th century). Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam stayed at this very house in 1521. The house was converted into a museum in 1932. Today, the collections (furniture, works of art, engravings, books and archives) form a unique collection illustrating assorted stages in European history : the Renaissance, the reign of Charles Quint, the Humanist movement, the flowering of printing and burgeoning religious conflict. A reading room containing one of the world's largest collections of 16th century volumes can be visited by arrangement.
Address:
Rue du Chapitre 31
1070 ANDERLECHT
Tel.:+32 (0) 2 521 13 83
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© mixed Media - collection Musée d'Ixelles, Bruxelles
The collections of the Ixelles museum present a vast panorama of the Belgian art from the 19th and 20th centuries, a view on the different artistic movements of this time: realism, impressionism, luminism, neo-impressionism and symbolism for the 19th century, and fauvism, expressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstraction and the most popular actual movements for the 20th century. Many Flemish artists, some representatives of foreign schools and a remarkable set of fin-de-siècle posters with the full collection of original posters made by Toulouse-Lautrec complete the exhibited collection.
Address:
Rue Jean Van Volsem 71
1050 IXELLES
Tel.:+32 (0) 2 515 64 21
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© Musée René Magritte, Bruxelles
Museum set up in the house where the famous Belgian painter lived and worked for a period of 24 years. Apart from the furnished apartment and the workshop in the garden, a number of original works are exhibited, together with some hundred personal objects and documents. 19 rooms are accessible to the public. The house of Magritte was the headquarters of the Belgian surrealists and the place where the artists realised half of his artistic production.
Address:
Rue Esseghem 135
1090 JETTE
Tel.:+32 (0) 2 428 26 26
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© OPT / Martine Pierard
Visitors entering the Wiertz Museum for the first time are in for quite a shock. Antoine Wiertz, the 19th century Belgian artist, had ambitions to be Raphaël, Michelangelo and Rubens all rolled into one. His predilictions were religious subjects, philophical and allegorical scenes and portraits, and he often painted giant canvasses with a frenzied romanticism.
Address:
Rue Vautier 62
1050 IXELLES
Tel.:+32 (0) 2 648 17 18
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© Michel de Bray
Private building, built between 1924 and 1928, Art Deco style.
Architectural elements, carpets, furniture, Art Deco glassware.
Important collection of paintings and sculptures from the 15th to the 20th century, of which a version of the famous "Fall of Icarus", by Breugel the Old, works by H. Seghers, F. Guardi, Fantin Latour, James Ensor, V. Van Gogh, R. Wauters, G. Van de Woestyne, …
Park of 1,30 ha with the "picturesque garden" by Jules Buyssens (1924), the "labyrinth" (1968) and "the garden of the heart" (1970) by R. Pechère and modern sculptures.
Address:
Avenue Léo Errera 41
1180 UCCLE
Tel.:+32 (0) 2 343 48 51
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Anysurfer, juin 2006
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