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The Old England department store in 1981, after having been bought by the Belgian State and before restoration. The Old England department store opened a new branch location not far from its original building on the Place Royale in 1899, designed by Saintenoy in collaboration with the engineer Emile Wyhowski de Bukanski.
The MIM collection was created in 1877 and was originally attached to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with the purpose of demonstrating early instruments to students. It consisted of a hundred Indian instruments given to King Leopold II by Rajah Sourindro Mohun Tagore in 1876, as well as the collection of the celebrated Belgian musicologist François-Joseph Fétis, purchased by the Belgian ...
Fantastical, bizarre and weird creations, sculptures and pictures Museums of the Far East (Japanese Tower and Chinese Pavilion) (part of Royal Museums of Art and History) City of Brussels : Art: Fin-de-Siècle Museum: City of Brussels Art Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium: City of Brussels: Fine art
The façade was restored in 1854–1858 by the City of Brussels' architect, Victor Jamaer , and again in 1907–1913 by the architect Jean Segers. [9] Nowadays, a Starbucks coffee shop is located on the ground floor of this building. 5 La Louve (Dutch: Den Wolf or Den Wolvin; "The She-Wolf") House of the Oath of Archers
The Ancienne Belgique (French for 'Old Belgium') (AB) is a concert hall for contemporary music in Brussels, Belgium. Located in the historic heart of Brussels, it is one of the leading concert venues in Belgium, hosting a wide variety of international and local acts. Some 300,000 people attend a concert at the "AB" every year.
This multidisciplinary space was designed to bring together a wide range of artistic events, whether music, visual arts, theatre, dance, literature, cinema or architecture. The building housing the Centre for Fine Arts was designed by the architect Victor Horta in Art Deco style, and completed in 1929 at the instigation of the banker and patron ...
The Brussels City Museum (French: Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles [myze də la vil də bʁysɛl]; Dutch: Museum van de Stad Brussel [myˈzeːjʏɱ vɑn də stɑd ˈbrʏsəl]) is a municipal museum on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt of Brussels, Belgium.
It was created following the covering of the river Senne (1867–1871), and bears the name of Adolphe Max, a former mayor of the City of Brussels. The Boulevard Adolphe Max connects the Place de Brouckère/De Brouckèreplein to the Boulevard du Jardin botanique/Kruidtuinlaan and the Place Charles Rogier/Karel Rogierplein , in the extension of ...