Royal museums of fine arts of Belgium is an Association of the Museum of ancient art and the Museum of contemporary art, located next to the Royal Palace of Brussels, Musée Antoine Wiertz Museum Constantin Meunier. It contains a large collection of paintings and sculptures owned by the state, collected in the period of the reign of the Austrian kings. Then these values were looted by French revolutionary troops and transported to Paris. Only after the death of Napoleon confiscated all the masterpieces were returned.

New kings William I and Leonid I purchased for the Museum a lot of art paintings, and the former burgomaster of Brussels has donated priceless works of art of the Flemish primitives, thanks to which the Museum collection has expanded considerably. For example, the exposure of the older collections are the works of the Flemish, French and Italian painters.

From the XIV to the XVIII centuries. the main part of the exhibition is devoted to the Belgian paintings stored in the Palace of the Habsburgs. The collection of works of the twentieth century is in addition to the original building. The numbering of the halls of the Museum of fine arts is marked not by numbers and letters. Here you can see the paintings of world renowned masters like Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Quentin Matsys, and the triptych of the “Seven sacraments” Rogier van der Weyden, etc. Photographic accuracy different painting by the Belgian artist Fernand Knoper “Memories”, which is one of the brightest of the collection.

In Ixelles, a suburb of Brussels, Museum of Antoine Wiertz (opened in 1868.) and Museum Constantin Meunier (opened in 1978), included in the Royal Museum of fine arts. They expose the work of the masters of surrealism.

Visiting the Museum of fine arts, you will be able to see the unknown works of great artists, and also to read the works of lesser-known painters.