Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Six museums under one federation — from 15th-century Flemish masters to the world's largest Magritte collection.
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Belgium's most visited art complex holds over 20,000 works spanning the early 15th century to the present. Flemish old masters Rubens, van Dyck, Bruegel, and Rogier van der Weyden anchor the Oldmasters Museum, while a dedicated Magritte Museum contains more of the surrealist's work than anywhere else on earth.
What to look for
- Paintings by Bruegel, Rubens, and Anthony van Dyck in the Oldmasters Museum — the core collection dates to works seized and returned during the French Republic period
- The Magritte Museum's unrivaled depth: the world's largest single collection of René Magritte's surrealist work
- The Fin-de-Siècle Museum, bridging the old masters and the modern section across the same complex
The complex is divided into six separate museums — Oldmasters, Magritte, Fin-de-Siècle, Modern, Wiertz, and Meunier — so decide your priorities before arriving.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium is one of 33 sights worth the detour in Brussels, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Brussels pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Brussels
- Manneken PisA 55.5 cm bronze boy that somehow became the face of an entire country — the joke is entirely intentional.
- Grand-PlaceEvery guildhall surrounding you was rebuilt from rubble — French artillery levelled the square in 1695, and the Town Hall tower survived only because it was the gunners' aiming point.
- AtomiumNine stainless-steel spheres arranged as an iron crystal blown up 165 billion times — built to headline a World's Fair and never taken down.
- Stoclet PalaceA UNESCO World Heritage house you can only see from the pavement — by design, and by the owner's choice.
- King Baudouin StadiumInaugurated for Belgium's 100th birthday in 1930, this 70,000-seat bowl on the Heysel Plateau hosted six European finals — and the night football changed forever.
- Cathedral of St. Michael and St. GudulaBelgium's national church began as a chapel on a trade-route crossroads in the 9th century — eleven centuries of building decisions are now stacked on a hill called "Mount of Sorrow."