Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

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The bulk of this collection consists of the painting of the former Southern Netherlands, with masterpieces by Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Dirk Bouts, Hans Memling, Hieronymus Bosch, Lucas Cranach and Gerard David. For the sixteenth century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder is magnificently represented with major works like The Fall of the Rebel Angels or The Census at Bethlehem. Finally, for the 17^th and 18^th centuries the Flemish School is represented by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacques Jordaens, the French and Italian schools by Simon Vouet, Philippe de Champaigne, Le Lorrain, Jusepe de Ribera, Giovani BattistaTiepolo and others ...

History of the collection

The collection originated during the French Revolution, when many works of art were seized by the occupant, especially from religious institutions.

The Museum was founded in 1801 by Napoleon Bonaparte, but it was in 1830, with Belgian independence, that it really became a major institution. In 1913, de Grez donation enriched the collection with more than 4,000 works on paper dating from the 16^th to the 19^th centuries (Hendrick Goltzius, Jacques de Gheyn the Younger, Rembrandt ...).

 

Tickets

Address

Musée Oldmasters Museum
Rue de la Régence/Regentschapsstraat 3
1000 Brussels

+32 (0)2 508 32 11
info@fine-arts-museum.be

Hours

Tuesdays – Fridays: 10:00-17:00
The ticket offices close at 16:30

Weekends: 11:00-18:00
The ticket offices close at 17:30

Closing days: Mondays, January 1^st, 2^nd Thursday of January, 1 May, 1 November, 11 November, 25 December

On 24 and 31 December, the Museums close at 14:00

 

Plan

Admission

	Musée Oldmasters Museum	Combi (Magritte, Modern, Oldmasters and Fin-de-Siècle)
Adults 26 - 64	€ 8	€ 13
Adults + 65; adults in groups	€ 6	€ 9
Children and young people 6-25 years, individually or in groups People with disabilities and escorts Job seekers and integration income beneficiaries (Law of 26/05/2002)	€ 2	€ 3
Children (below and age 5) accompanied by an adult Friends of the Museums Any visitor first Wednesday of each month from 13:00 onwards Press card holders One accompanying person per group with a greatly reduced admission price Belgian school teacher ICOM members Members of ICOM-Vlaanderen, ICOM / Wallonie-Bruxelles City of Brussels guides Science Policy (Belspo) staff	Free	Free
Audioguide (French, Dutch, English, German)	€ 4	–

Free admission to all museums on the 1^st Wednesdays of the month from 13:00