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Cinquantenaire Museum
Address:
Parc du Cinquantenaire 10
1000 Brussels
Phone: +32 (0)2 741 72 11
Fax: +32 (0)2 733 77 35
E-mail: info@kmkg-mrah.be
Website: http://www.mrah.be
Open: daily from 9:30am to 5pm; Saturday, Sunday and public holidays from 10am to 5pm. Last tickets at 4pm. Closed from Tuesday 15.06 to Sunday 20.06
Closed: MUSEUM CLOSED 14/06-21/06 (WORKS). Monday, January 1, May 1, November 1 and 11, December 25
Price: between 1,50 € and 5 € (Pavillon Horta-Lambeaux : 2,50 €). Free admission the first Wednesday of each month as of 1pm.
Visits: upon reservation at +32 (0)2 741 72 14
Services: documentation centre (in progress) - meeting room - rent of room
Facilities: accessible to disabled persons - parking
Accessibility: Train: Central Station or Schuman - Metro: Lines 1 et 5 (Merode or Schuman) - Bus 22 27 61 80 - Tram 81 83
Collection: Great museum complex with vast collection: antiquity, non-European civilisations, European decorative arts,...
Description: This museum's collections stem from nearly all continents and all periods. In the antiquity department the Apamea Hall and its colonnade - a life-size reconstruction - serve as the perfect setting for Roman mosaics. Portraits, a fresco, an impressive scale model of Rome, etc. invite visitors to become immersed in the Roman Empire. Ancient Greece is mainly depicted through different types of vases. The Egypt of the Pharaohs is brought back to life via sculptures, steles, mummies, papyrus and jewels, and, of course, the 4,500-year-old mastaba of Saqqarah. Cuneiform tablets, bronze ritual objects and beautiful Assyrian reliefs illustrate the complexity of the cultural world in the Middle East and ancient Persia.
National Archaeology covers a period of 300,000 years. In the Prehistory Hall, objects date back to the earliest settlements up to the Iron Age. The Gallo-Roman period is displayed in a very educational way, revealing its coinage, glassware, luxury ceramics and jewels, and even a reconstruction of a villa façade and hypocaust. And to illustrate the Merovingian times, there is a reconstructed necropolis with skeletons of the belligerent Franks.
European Decorative Arts
In the "Treasure Room" visitors will come across the famous gold, silver and metal work of the Meuse region. The tapestries, altarpieces and other internationally renowned masterpieces were manufactured by local craftspeople and those from other European areas. Produced between the 13th and 17th century, they are displayed in the museum's 15 recently renovated halls, covering the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Lastly, the ceramics, copperware, photography, glassware, lace and textile, old vehicles, precision instrument collections, as well as the "Musée du Coeur", complete the overview.
Non-European Civilizations
Visitors will travel to America, Oceania, China and Southeast Asia in search of some famous items, such as the 'broken ear' fetish (Peru) which inspired Hergé, the massive statue of the tuna fishing god - Pou Hakanononga - (Easter Island), a wooden bodhisattva from the 13th century, a 'dancing' bronze Siva (India), tangh-kas paintings on rolled canvasses (Tibet) as well as ceramics from Vietnam. (Royal Museums of Art and History)
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