Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art

The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (MIMA) was a contemporary art museum in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Privately owned and operated as a non-profit, it was founded in 2016 and housed in the former Belle-Vue Brewery at 41, quai du Hainaut/Henegouwenkaai, along the Brussels–Charleroi Canal. The museum closed permanently in 2025. History Opened on 15 April 2016, the museum was established in the former Belle-Vue Brewery , a four-storey building dating from 1916, located along the Brussels–Charleroi Canal in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean . The museum was privately financed at a cost of €18 million by the developer Jean-Paul Pütz, with contributions of artworks from seven collectors. It operated with an annual budget of around €600,000. MIMA was directed by Alice van den Abeele and Raphaël Cruyt, who launched the project as a non-profit to address the lack of public contemporary art museums in Belgium. Over the years, the.