Art & History Museum

The Art & History Museum (French: Musée Art & Histoire; Dutch: Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis) is a public museum of antiquities and ethnographic and decorative arts located at the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium. The museum is one of the constituent parts of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) and is one of the largest art museums in Europe. It was formerly called the Cinquantenaire Museum (French: Musée du Cinquantenaire; Dutch: Jubelpark Museum) until 2018. It is served by Brussels-Schuman railway station, as well as by the metro stations Schuman and Merode on lines 1 and 5. History The museum's first collections were assembled during the reigns of the Dukes of Burgundy and subsequently the Habsburg archdukes , and were placed in various locations in Brussels, their capital. In 1847, the newly formed Kingdom of Belgium acquired the artworks, which were placed in the Halle Gate under the name of Musée royal d'Armures, d'Antiquités et d'Ethnologie ("Royal Museum of Armour, Antiquities and Ethnology"). By 1889, the gate had become too small and the collections were relocated to the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark (except for the armour and weapons, which still remain in the. Collection The Art & History Museum's collections are divided into four parts: National archaeology Classical antiquity Non-European civilisations European decorative arts National archaeology The museum has a large collection of national archaeological pieces dating from prehistory , the Gallo-Roman period, to the Merovingian period ( c. 751 AD ). Prehistory The Prehistory room presents the vestiges of cultures and civilisations attested in what is now Belgium from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age . Tools, vases and jewellery are put back into context thanks to models and reconstructions, which allow visitors to get an idea.