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Phone
  
+32 2 508 32 11

Fin-de-Siècle Museum

Established
  
6 December 2013 (2013-12-06)

Collections
  
Impressionism, Art Nouveau

Website
  
www.fine-arts-museum.be/en/museums/musee-fin-de-siecle-museum

Address
  
Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

Hours
  
Closed now Saturday11AM–6PMSunday11AM–6PMMondayClosedTuesday10AM–5PMWednesday10AM–5PMThursday10AM–5PMFriday10AM–5PM

Similar
  
Oldmasters Museum, Royal Museums of Fine Ar, Magritte Museum, Musée Modern Museum, Constantin Meunier Museum

Mus e fin de si cle museum


The Fin-de-Siècle Museum (French: Musée Fin-de-Siècle, "Museum of the Turn of the Century") is a museum in Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the full spectrum of the arts of the period between 1868, when the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts ("Free Society of Fine Arts") was founded Brussels, and 1914, the year of the outbreak of World War I. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The museum opened on 6 December 2013.

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Collection

Artists represented in the museum's collection include Constantin Meunier, James Ensor, Henri Evenepoel, and Fernand Khnopff, Léon Spilliaert. The museum also celebrates the richness of the period in literature, architecture, photography, opera, music, and poetry, featuring works by Maurice Maeterlinck, Emile Verhaeren, Octave Maus, Victor Horta, Henry Van de Velde, Maurice Kufferath, and Guillaume Lekeu. Important international artists of the period in the collection include Vincent van Gogh Rodin, Georges Seurat, Paul Gaugin, and Edward Burne-Jones. The Gillon-Crowet gallery houses a collection of Art Nouveau furniture and decorative arts.

References

Fin-de-Siècle Museum Wikipedia