The Fin-de-Siècle Museum (French: Musée Fin-de-Siècle, Dutch: Fin-de-Siècle Museum, "Museum of the Turn of the Century") is a museum in Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to the full spectrum of the arts of the period between 1884, when the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts ("Free Society of Fine Arts") was founded Brussels, and 1914, the year of the outbreak of World War I. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.[1] The museum opened on 6 December 2013.[2]

Fin-de-Siècle Museum

Musée Fin-de-Siècle  (French) Fin-de-Siècle Museum  (Dutch)
Waterlily bookcase by Louis Majorelle, in the Gillon-Crowet collection
Location within Brussels
Established	6 December 2013 (2013-12-06)
Coordinates	50°50′31″N 4°21′30″E
Collections	Impressionism, Art Nouveau
Website	Official website

Collection

Artists represented in the museum's collection include Constantin Meunier, James Ensor, Henri Evenepoel, Fernand Khnopff, and Léon Spilliaert. The museum also celebrates the richness of the period in literature, architecture, photography, opera, music, and poetry, featuring works by Maurice Maeterlinck, Emile Verhaeren, Octave Maus, Victor Horta, Henry Van de Velde, Maurice Kufferath, and Guillaume Lekeu.

Important international artists of the period in the collection include Vincent van Gogh, Auguste Rodin, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, and Edward Burne-Jones. The Gillon-Crowet gallery houses a collection of Art Nouveau furniture and decorative arts.[1][2]

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  Self-portrait, Constantin Meunier, 1885
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  Portrait de Marguerite Khnopff, Fernand Khnopff, 1887
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  Les masques singuliers, James Ensor, 1892
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  Divan Japonais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893
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  La Nature, Alphonse Mucha, 1899–1900
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  Three-armed dandelion lamp, Antonin Daum and Louis Majorelle, 1902

See also

• Art Nouveau in Brussels
• History of Brussels
• Culture of Belgium
• Belgium in "the long nineteenth century"

References

Notes

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fin de Siècle Museum.

• Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum official website

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[fr] Musée Fin de siècle