Archives et Musée de la litterrature (Dutch: Archive and Museum of Literature)

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The Archives et Musée de la litterrature (Dutch: Archive and Museum of Literature) is a Belgian institute dedicated to French literature. It has four departments: Belgian literature, theatre and audiovisual, and international poetry. It was founded in 1958 and is located on the third floor of the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels City.

The Dutch counterpart for Belgium is the Literature House in Antwerp, also called Archive and Museum for Flemish Culture. Local is that the Archive and Museum for Flemish Life in Brussels The museum and archive contain iconographic and bio-bibliographic documents, autographs and manuscripts, of which more than seven thousand are present. It also houses fifteen thousand books.

All kinds of collections, archives and donations have been recorded. There are also the archives and reading room of the Académie royale de langue et de litterrature françaises de Belgique. There is also an international poetry library, including extensive documentation.

There are fifty thousand collections of poems and six thousand magazines on poetry. Here...