Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium - a union of the old Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, located next to the Royal Palace of Brussels, Wirtz Museum and the Museum Antoine Constantin Meunier. It contains a large collection of paintings and sculptures belonging to the state, collected in the period of the reign of the Austrian kings. Then, these values ​​were looted by French revolutionary troops and moved to Paris. Only after the death of Napoleon confiscated all masterpieces were repatriated.

The new King William I and Leonidas I purchased for the museum a lot of paintings, and the former mayor of Brussels has donated priceless works of art of the Flemish Primitives, so the museum's collection has expanded considerably. For example, the exposure of the old collections are works by Flemish, French and Italian painters.

From the XIV to XVIIIvv. the main part of the exhibition assigned to Belgian paintings stored in the palace of the Habsburgs. Collection of works of the XX century is located in the annex building. The numbering of the halls of the Museum of Fine Arts is marked not numbers, and letters. Here you can see the paintings of world renowned artists - Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Quentin Matsys, and the triptych "The Seven Sacraments" Rogier van der Weyden and others. Photographic precision different picture of the Belgian artist Fernand Knopora "Memories", which is one of the brightest exhibits of the collection.

In Ixelles, a suburb of Brussels, Antoine Wirtz Museum (opened in 1868.) And Constantin Meunier Museum (opened in 1978.) Belonging to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts. They expose the works of the masters of surrealism.

Visiting the Museum of Fine Arts, you can see the unknown works of great artists, as well as get acquainted with the works of lesser-known artists.