Posts Tagged ‘expo’
Autoworld
One of the most extensive car museums in Europe. The venue for Belgium’s motor show since 1902 (!) with the largest collection of old and new motor vehicles in the world.
From now till 17 January 2010
Bugatti celebrates its 100th anniversary. Thirty models from this mystical manufacturer are on public display.
www.bugatti100.com
Parc du cinquantenaire 11, B-1000 Brussels
www.autoworld.be
Birth of the comic strips
Till 25 April 2010
In the Autrique House, one of the outstanding examples or Art Nouveau in Brussels, an exhibition dedicated to the development of comic strips as from the 18th century.
Autrique House
Chaussée de Haecht 266, B-1030 Brussels
Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR)
Brussels’ outstanding and contemporary museum by Horta that acts as a showcase for Belgian modern art, as well as welcoming international artists.
3 Rue de la Regence, B-1000 Brussels
www.bozar.be
20 minutes walk!
Magritte Museum in Brussels
Since 2 June 2009, visitors are able to discover the Musée Magritte Museum on 2.500 m² of a building of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The multidisciplinary collection is the richest in the world. It contains more than 200 works consisting in oils on canvas, gouaches, drawings, sculptures and painted objects but also in advertising posters, music scores, vintage photographs and films produced by Magritte himself.
Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Brussels
www.musee-magritte-museum.be
20 minutes walk!
Atomium
Designed for the 1958 World Exhibition and fully renovated in 2005, the Atomium is a hybrid building, a mixture of sculpture and architecture, that is built on the model of a crystallized iron molecule and its atoms, enlarged 165 billion times! The most spectacular views of Brussels and Brabant from the uppermost ball.
Square de l’Atomium B-1020 Brussels
www.atomium.be