Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Geschiedenis

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium.HistoryIn 1845 it is decided by royal Decree that a museum is to be founded with works of art of decesead and living Belgian Artists. This is accorded by Minister Sylvain van de Weyer a national Commission is founded to select important works of art. This commission is presided by the First president Count de Beaufort. Other members are: Gustaf Wappers, President of the Royal Museum of Antwerpen. François-Joseph Navez, President of the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Bruxelles. Guillaume Geefs Eugène Simonis Tilman-François Suys, professor at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. Luigi Calamatta, professor of engraving. Much of the founder members were active in the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium and therefor considered important.The museumThe museums are situated in the capital Brussels in the downtown area on the Coudenberg. There are six museums connected with the Royal Museum, and two of them (the Museum of Ancient Art and the Museum of Modern Art, Brussels), are in the main building. The Magritte Museum, opened in 2009, and Fin-de-Siècle Museum, opened in 2013, are adjacent to the main building The Constantin Meunier Museum and the Antoine Wiertz Museum are dedicated to specific Belgian artists, are much smaller, and are located a few kilometers from the city center.