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It is located on the south side of the Grand-Place/Grote Markt (Brussels' main square), opposite the neo-Gothic King's House or Bread House [a] building, housing the Brussels City Museum. [ 1 ] Erected between 1401 and 1455, the Town Hall is the only remaining medieval building of the Grand-Place and is considered a masterpiece of civil Gothic ...
22 June: Luc Terlinden is appointed Archbishop of Mechelen–Brussels. [120] 9 September: Belgian Beer World opens in the former Brussels Stock Exchange building, with the main hall now free and open to the public for the first time. [121] [122] 14 September: The Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles becomes part of Université catholique de ...
The City of Brussels is designated capital of Belgium and seat of the Federal Government. [103] 1 March: An explosion in a Hunderenveld apartment building in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe causes a partial collapse of three floors, killing six tenants. [104] [105] 1 April: The first Kunstenfestivaldesarts (KFDA) is held.
Brussels Park and the Palace of the Council of Brabant, Aurèle-Augustin Simons, 1789. 1789 The secret society Pro Aris et Focis is founded to prepare for the Brabant Revolution against Emperor Joseph II. [109] [110] 10–12 December: The Battle of Brussels takes place, marking the start of the Brabant Revolution in the city.
The current building, whose interior was renovated in 1985, has housed the Brussels City Museum since 1887. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] From 1928, the entire building was assigned to the museum's collections. After transformations, it reopened its doors in 1935 on the occasion of the Brussels International Exposition .
It promotes member museums through the Brussels Card (giving access to public transport and 30 of the 100 museums), the Brussels Museums Nocturnes (every Thursday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. from mid-September to mid-December) and the Museum Night Fever (an event for and by young people on a Saturday night in late February or early March).
Located at 2, rue Montagne de la Cour / Hofberg on the Mont des Arts/Kunstberg, the building stands next to the Place Royale/Koningsplein and across the street from the Magritte Museum. [1] It is served by Brussels-Central railway station and Parc/Park metro station on lines 1 and 5 of the Brussels Metro.
The Art Nouveau movement of architecture and design first appeared in Brussels, Belgium, in the early 1890s, and quickly spread to France and to the rest of Europe.It began as a reaction against the formal vocabulary of European academic art, eclecticism and historicism of the 19th century, and was based upon an innovative use of new materials, such as iron and glass, to open larger interior ...