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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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Discover
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A period of resentment, illness and misery led audelaire, author of Les Fleurs du Mal, to write an offensive pamphlet – unpublished in his lifetime, Pauvre Belgique!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.
Thursday September 14, 2017 - 6.30 pm
"History" Thursdays
Baudelaire and Dandyism
Conference by the Ambassador of France to the Kingdom of Belgium, Claude-France Arnould (in French)
Throughout this story, the Maison du Roi, where the exhibition is held, occupies a special place. It was on the pretext of giving five conferences in this venerable building that led Baudelaire to settle in Brussels in 1864. This was where the historical meeting between Baudelaire and Brussels failed to take place, and where they would be reunited 150 years later.
Booking : brusselsculture@brucity.be
Place: Gothic Room at the Brussels Town Hall
Admission: € 8, € 6, € 4, € 0
Sunday September 3, 2017
First sunday of the month
On the first Sunday of every month admission to the museum is free.
Monday 2 and Tuesday October 3, 2017
Study days
The conservation of the tapestry cartoon of Pieter Coecke,
The martyrdom of St.Paul
To mark the completion of the project "Recovery of an exceptional piece..", the City of Brussels, in cooperation with the Historic Monuments and Sites Department, is organising two study days on 2 and 3 October 2017.
