Magritte Museum

This article is about the constituent museum of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. For the museum in Jette, see René Magritte Museum.

Magritte Museum

Musée Magritte  (French) Magritte Museum  (Dutch)
Hôtel du Lotto, home of the museum.
Location within Brussels Magritte Museum (Belgium)
Established	2009
Location	Place Royale / Koningsplein 1, B-1000 City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50.842019°N 4.358522°E / 50.842019; 4.358522
Type	Art museum
Website	Official website

The Magritte Museum (French: Musée Magritte, Dutch: Magritte Museum) is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the work of the Belgian surrealist artist, René Magritte. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. It is served by Brussels Central Station, as well as by the metro stations Parc/Park (on lines 1 and 5) and Trône/Troon (on lines 2 and 6).

Museum

The Magritte Museum opened to the public on 30 May 2009 in Brussels. Housed in the five-level neoclassical Hôtel du Lotto, on the Place Royale/Koningsplein, it displays some 200 original Magritte paintings, drawings and sculptures including The Return, Scheherazade and The Empire of Light.

This multidisciplinary permanent installation is the biggest Magritte archive anywhere and most of the work is directly from the collection of the artist's widow, Georgette Magritte, and from Irene Hamoir Scutenaire, who was his primary collector. Additionally, the museum includes Magritte's experiments with photography from 1920 on and the short surrealist films he made from 1956 on.

See also

• BELvue Museum
• List of single-artist museums