Cinquantenaire Museum

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Cinquantenaire Museum
Musée du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark museum
Front of the museum (2010)
Location within Belgium Brussels
Location	Cinquantenaire Park 10 Brussels B-1000 Belgium
Coordinates	50°50′21″N 4°23′31″E / 50.83903°N 4.39187°E / 50.83903; 4.39187
Type	Art, Ethnology and History museum
Public transit access	Schuman and Merode station
Website	www.kmkg-mrah.be

The Cinquantenaire Museum (French: Musée du Cinquantenaire, Dutch: Jubelpark museum) is located in the Cinquantenaire park in Brussels, Belgium.

It is part of the Royal Museums for Art and History, which is a Belgian federal institute of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO).

Collection

The collection of the museum is divided into four parts:

The Collection of national archaeology which dates between prehistory to the Merovingian period (751 AD)
The Collection of antiquity with collections from the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome. The Roman collection includes a large scale model of the city of Rome during the 4th century AD.
The Collection of non-European civilisations with collections of artefacts from Asian countries, such as China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and the Americas (showing pre-Columbian civilisations and contemporary societies) and Oceania (particularly Easter Island) and the Islamic world.
The Collection of European decorative arts from the Middle Ages to the 20th century showing sculptures, furniture, tapestries, textiles, costumes, lace, ceramics, metals, glassware, old vehicles, photographic and cinematographic equipment, etc.

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Cinquantenaire Museum Halle Gate Musical Instrument Museum Museums of the Far East Temple of Human Passions

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