Museums and Arts

There are more than 80 museums in Brussels , they covers many topics from medicine to archeology. We will not review all of the them , the reference for information about museums in Brussels is http://www.brusselsmuseums.be (the site is in dutch and French)

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium

Rue de la Régence 3 ou Place royale 1-2
1000 Brussels

This one of the most popular museum in Brussels and Belgium , you will find painting , drawing and sculpture from the 15th century to this day with work by Rogier van der Weyden, Dirk Bouts , Jan Brueghel the Elder , also many Dutch paintings from the 17th century from Rembrandt , by Frans Hals and the Italian Guercino.

The museum has work of Rubens , Réne Magritte and many other great artists.

Tour Japonaise et Pavillon Chinois

( Japanese tower and Chinese House ) Avenue Van Praet 44
1020 Laeken

Build between 1901 and 1904 , on the initiative of Léopold II and fall under utopian urbanistic mobility and exotic of the beginning of the XXe century. The construction of the Japanese Tower, very out of wood, is in conformity with the Japanese traditional techniques. This museum and monument propose temporary exposures of very great quality on Japanese civilization.

Royal Museum For Central Africa

Leuvensesteenweg 13
3080 Tervuren

With its colonial past the Belgium , it was to have a museum of African art. The museum has temporary and permanent exhibition . The permanent exhibition ( http://www.africamuseum.be/museum/permanent ) central African ethnography , sculpture ,

African mountain landscape , zoological dioramas , Prehistory and Archaeology , . Comparative Ethnography , birds , fish amphibians and reptiles , geology and mineralogy , insects and invertebrates , history and memorial gallery , archeology .

Other interesting museums are the Tramways museum ( Avenue de Tervuren 364B
- 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre ) near the Royal Museum For Central Africa. The Royal Musuem of Army at Parc du Cinquantenaire 3 , 1000 Bruxelles. The Cinquantaire Musuem , Parc du Cinquantaire 10 , The horta museum - Rue Américaine 25
1060 Saint-Gilles .