Cinquantenaire Museum

Cinquantenaire Museum

Musée du Cinquantenaire / Jubelpark Museum
Front of the museum (2010)
Location within 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, history
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 Jubelpark(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). It is one of the largest museums in Europe.

Collection

The collection of the museum is divided into four parts:

National archaeology

The Cinquantenaire Museum has a large collection which dates between prehistory to the Merovingian period (751 AD). It also has a collection of antiquity.

Antiquity

Collection houses early art from the ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome civilizations. Many important and impressive remains from Apamea, Syria, including part of the Great Colonnade and outstanding mosaic floors are on view. The Roman collection also includes a large scale model of the city of Rome during the 4th century AD.

Non-European civilisations

Important 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.

European decorative arts

Fine arts from the Middle Ages to the 20th century showing

• sculptures
• furniture
• Important and large department of textiles
  • Flemish tapestries
  • costumes and dress
  • Needle lace and Bobbin lace, parts from the royal collection
• ceramics
• metals
• glassware
• horse-drawn vehicles
• photographic and cinematographic equipment

Gallery

• 
  Carriage, 18th century
• 
  Flemish tapestries
• 
  Arte Nouveau sculpture
• 
  Great Colonnade from Apamea
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  Roman mosaic from Apamea depicting a hunting scene.
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  Easter Island Statue
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  Native American Totem pole
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  Female figurines found in Mexico in Guanajuato, identified as pre-classic clay figures from the Chupicuaro culture, 400-100 BC, called “Pretty Ladies (female figurines)” by some archaeologists.

See also

• AutoWorld
• Mundaneum
• Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cinquantenaire Museum.

• Royal Museums for Art and History

Constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Art and History
Cinquantenaire Museum Halle Gate Musical Instrument Museum Museums of the Far East Temple of Human Passions

Coordinates: 50°50′21″N 4°23′31″E / 50.83903°N 4.39187°E / 50.83903; 4.39187