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Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts: Musée
Magritte and Musée Fin de Siècle Level 4

These two museums of modern art are housed
in a unique setting: eight levels of the building are
underground, but a lightwell allows many of the
works to be seen by natural daylight filtering in from
the Place du Musée. The Musée Fin de Siècle focuses
on the late 19th and early 20th century, an incredibly
rich and varied period for European art during which
Brussels became a powerhouse for the Art Nouveau
movement. The city’s key role in the 20th-century Level 3
Surrealism movement is celebrated in the Musée
Magritte, with its superb collection – the largest in
the world – of works by the Belgian master.
Level 2

Level 1

Le Joueur Secret (1927)
The Musée Magritte owns this work, painted during Magritte’s
self-titled “Cavernous” period. Level -1

To Musée Old
. The Domain of Arnheim Masters
(1962)
The museum contains the most
extensive col lection of work by
sur realist René Magritte (see p21).
Here, an eagle-mountain rears
over a small bird’s nest. The
inexplicable nature of the eerie
composition draws its elements
into question, but answers are
made deliberately difficult.
Level -2
To Musée Fin
de Siècle
Gallery Guide
Access to the museums is available through the main ticket hall of the
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. The Musée Magritte is arranged
in chronological order over six floors. Level -2 is a multimedia area, showing
Magritte’s films. From here, stairs lead further underground to the Musée
Fin de Siècle. The area shaded in green is the permanent collection, which
displays work from the 19th and 20th centuries.

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