About the museum
The story of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels were founded in 1801 under Napoleon's rule. They stand on the Mont des Arts, close to the Royal Palace.
The Old Masters Museum holds superb Flemish painting from the Primitives to Rubens, with a renowned group of Bruegel, while the Magritte Museum and the fin-de-siècle collection carry the story into modern times.
The collection
The Old Masters Museum shows Flemish painting from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, with Rogier van der Weyden, Dieric Bouts, Hans Memling, Bruegel and a full room of Rubens. The Bruegel collection includes The Census at Bethlehem and The Fall of the Rebel Angels.
The Fin-de-Siècle Museum covers Belgian art around 1900, including Khnopff, Ensor and Art Nouveau, and the Magritte Museum holds the world's largest collection of René Magritte.
At ArtLogia you can order 116 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 74 artists led by Bernard van Orley, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens.
- paintings to order
- 116
- artists
- 74
- art movements
- 16
- years covered
- 1420–1908
The building
The museums stand on the Coudenberg hill, in a nineteenth-century Palais des Beaux-Arts designed by Alphonse Balat, with later underground galleries descending eight floors below the Place Royale.
Masterpieces to see
The Death of MaratJacques-Louis David, 1793 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Landscape with the Fall of IcarusJoos de Momper the Younger, 1607 · Hand-painted reproduction available- The Census at BethlehemFind similar reproductions
The Fall of the Rebel AngelsPieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Planning a visit
One ticket can cover the Old Masters, the Fin-de-Siècle and the Magritte museums, all in the same complex.
