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Manneken-Pis
Manneken-Pis is undeniably part and parcel of Brussels’ cultural heritage, and today one of the city’s best known symbols along with the Atomium and the Cathedral of Saint-Michel.
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MASTERPIECE
Maison du Roi
The Museum of the City of Brussels resides in a neo-Gothic style building known as the Maison du Roi in French and Broodhuis in Dutch. The first masterpiece of the museum, the building was listed in its entirety in 1936 (one of the first in Belgium) and has been listed alongside the Grand-Place as a UNESCO world heritage site since 2000.
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Restoration
The tapestry cartoon
The museum is restoring an exceptional work: an immense picture of 3.40 m x 3.80 m, dating back to the 16th century and featuring the martyrdom of St. Paul. An enormous paper fresco ….
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The Wedding Cortège
There are currently about fifteen known paintings which depict the same scene. These were produced by different painters and, until recently, all were considered to be copies of a lost work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
MoreThursday September 07 > Sunday March 11, 2018
Baudelaire >< Brussels
Towards the end of his life, Charles Baudelaire spent two years in Brussels, from 1864 to 1866. A period of resentment, illness and misery led audelaire, author of Les Fleurs du Mal, to write an offensive pamphlet – unpublished in his lifetime, Pauvre Belgique! This pamphlet contains all the poet's grievances against Belgium and is the underlying theme of this exhibition.
This pamphlet contains all the poet's grievances against Belgium and is the underlying theme of this exhibition. In addition to the poet's defamatory comments, we invite you on a unique, irreverent visit to the Belgian capital in the 1860s, with Baudelaire as your guide. This is Brussels towards the end of King Leopold I's reign, with the Senne, black soap, dogcarts and the first photographs.
Sunday November 5, 2017
First sunday of the month
On the first Sunday of every month admission to the museum is free.
Muséomix 2017
The Brussels City Museum is the Belgian museum chosen to participate in Muséomix 2017! What is Muséomix?
Muséomix is the first international cultural makeathon that mixes skills and insights. Muséomix is a gathering of mediators, tinkerers, designers, developers, graphic designers, communicators, artists, writers, scientists … at the heart of a museum to experiment and connect together. Muséomix is a 3-day creative sprint to invent, design, prototype and test innovative museum installations with new technologies. Muséomix is a international event : other participating museums : 12 participating countries
Sunday, November 12 from 4 to 8 pm: the public is invited to come and test the prototypes developed during the weekend (free entry)
