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Four years after opening the Magritte Museum, the first stage of the federal
collections redeployment, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are pleased
to present the completion of the second stage with the opening of the Musée
Fin-de-Siècle Museum on 6 December 2013.

1868 – 1914

The new Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum presents Brussels as the cultural crossroads
of Europe at the turn of the century. This exceptional collection of works by
Belgian artists such as James Ensor, Fernand Khnopff, Léon Spilliaert, Victor
Horta, Henry Van de Velde or Philippe Wolfers,… and by  foreign artists such as
Paul Gauguin, Auguste Rodin, Pierre Bonnard, Emile Gallé, Louis Majorelle and
Alphonse Mucha,… places the art scene at the heart of international creativity.

With the organization of the salons of Les XX (1883-1894) and La Libre
Esthétique (1894–1914), in the very rooms of this museum, Brussels became a
unique hub for creative work. It didn’t identify itself with the Impressionist
wave but found in the conjunction of Symbolism, the Wagnerian movement and Art
Nouveau the emblems of an identity that did, to a great extent, shape the face
of the city. “Brussels, capital of Art Nouveau” is not just a matter of
architecture. The term refers in the first place to the dynamism of a society.
And this society made its mark in every art discipline: literature, painting,
opera, music, architecture, photography, and poetry; and through the works of
Maurice Maeterlinck, Emile Verhaeren, Jean Delville, Henri Evenepoel, Constantin
Meunier, Maurice Kufferath, and Guillaume Lekeu, to name a few.

Offering an account of this adventure requires a multidisciplinary approach that
has only been made possible thanks to the partnership between the Royal Museums
of Fine Arts and our colleagues in the Royal Library, La Monnaie/De Munt, the
Royal Museums of Art and History, Cinematek, Bibliotheca Wittockiana , the King
Baudouin Foundation and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. To this list of
partners we must add Belfius and Brussels Capital Region, which conserved the
outstanding Gillion Crowet collection. This collection is one of the highlights
of our circuit and indeed its culmination.

The budget for this project comes to some 8.7 million euros, of which more than
one million comes from the patronage of Baron and Baroness Gillion Crowet –
whose collection is to be seen in all its glory on floor -8 of the Museum. The
Royal Museums, for their part, invested 2.7 million euros in the renovation of
the rooms. Finally, and most importantly, the Buildings Agency (Régie des
bâtiments), which renovated the rooms and was involved in the climate control
and lighting, committed a total of 5 million euros to the Musée Fin-de-Siècle
Museum.

The Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum provides an innovative museal approach accessible
to everyone, whether able of less able. Multidisciplinary and sensory
experiences, creative discoveries, and new technologies are made available to
the public.

This is a tremendous opportunity for the public to delve into the splendour of
the 1900s!

MICHEL DRAGUET
GENERAL MANAGER

 

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