Art & History Museum

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The Art & History Museum (French: Musée Art & Histoire; English: 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 formally called the Cinquantenaire Museum (French: Musée du Cinquantenaire; Dutch: Cinquantenaire 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 related to the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark (except for the armour and weapons, which...