Museum Constantin-Miller

The museum Constantin Meunier , with Ixelles (street of the Abbey), is installed in the house-workshop of Constantin Meunier (1831 - 1905), repurchased by the State in 1936 with the whole of works which it sheltered, and is entirely devoted to him.

He preserves approximately 150 works chosen among his drawings, paintings and sculptures. Preserved works cover primarily the period between 1875 and 1905, period that the artist regarded as “his second life”, marked by its catch of social conscience. Works presented recall its evolution with through first of all drawings and paintings, representations realistic of the work world, then of its return to the sculpture during the ten last years of its life. The museum exposes the plasters and bronzes which deeply marked and influenced realistic art.

One can see there the fabric the crucible broken (130,5 X 238,5 cm), painted in 1884 following the discovery of the industrial universe of the basin inhabitant of Li2ege, the metallurgy with the Cockerill factories, Seraing, the glassmaking with the Valley-Saint-Lambert . Constantin Meunier will take again this topic in 1890 in one of the low-reliefs ( industry ) of sound Monument with Work (Laeken).

The museum Constantin Meunier belongs to the royal Musées of the Art schools of Belgium.

Practical methods

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The museum:

  • Address: street of the Abbey 59,1050 Brussels; Tel.: 02.648.44.49
  • Opening: from Tuesday to Friday of 10:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 with 17:00; certain weekends apart from the holidays.
  • Access: bus 38 and 60 (Abbey); trams 23,90,93,94 (Abbey).

Information center:

  • Address: street of the Museum 5,1000 Brussels; Tel.: 02.508.33.20
  • E-mail: biblio@fine-arts-museum.be
  • open Library Tuesday and Thursday, of 9:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:00, closing in August and between the festivals of end of the year.

External bond

  • Site of the royal museums of the Art schools of Belgium

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