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The Museums of Art and History house material and artefacts from various civilisations with the exception of Black Africa. They consist of the Cinquantenaire Museum, the Chinese Pavilion and the Japanese Tower, the Museum of Japanese Art, the Musical Instruments Museum, the Porte de Hal Museum, the Horta-Lambeaux Pavilion. The Cinquantenaire Museum is divided into four main sections: national archeology, antiquity, non-European civilisations and European decorative arts. The National Archeology section (prehistoric times, Gallo-Roman era, Merovingian period) underlines the continuous development of handicraft in the Low Countries and provides an introduction to the techniques of contemporary archeological research.

The European decorative arts section presents a rich collection of sculptures, furniture, tapestries, textiles, costumes, lace, ceramics, metals, glass, vintage cars and film and photography material. Not to be missed is the Treasure Room which brings together the treasures of Art of the Meuse Valley; the route of decorative arts of the Middle Ages to the baroque period has been entirely renovated containing tapestries and reredos.

Another must are the new rooms devoted to 20th century art (Art Nouveau and Art Deco). Those rooms containing items from the Antiquity (Middle East, Egypt, Greece and Rome) lead us back to the cradle of western civilisation. The scale model of Rome and the Apamee room and its life-sized colonnade warrant a special mention. The section on non-European civilisations places the visitor in contact with all the regions of the world: Asia (China, Korea, Japan, and South-East Asia), America (pre-Columbian civilisations and current traditional societies), Oceania (objects and a statue from Easter Island) and the world of Islam.

Address:

Parc du Cinquantenaire 10 / Jubelpark 10

1000 - Bruxelles / Brussel

Tel : +32 2 741 72 00

Fax : +32 2 741 72 07

Email : info@kmkg-mrah.be

Website : www.kmkg-mrah.be