Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium
The Magritte Museum in Brussels celebrates Belgian Surrealist René Magritte, displaying his paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, and personal works. 1318
Magritte Museum: Pl. Royale 1, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
Date Picture Taken: May, 2026
The Magritte Museum is connected to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium underground, so I could walk directly from one museum to the other.
The Magritte Museum in Brussels is devoted to René Magritte (1898–1967), Belgium’s most famous Surrealist artist. Opened in 2009 as part of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, it contains one of the world’s largest collections of his work.
René Magritte (1898–1967)
René Magritte (1898–1967) was a Belgian Surrealist painter and one of the most recognizable artists of the 20th century.
He painted ordinary objects—apples, pipes, bowler hats, clouds, windows, birds, and men in suits—but placed them in strange or impossible situations. Rather than creating dreamlike fantasy in the manner of Salvador Dalí, Magritte often painted in a clear, realistic style, making the impossible scenes appear strangely believable.
His paintings frequently question what is real, what is an image, and how words and pictures affect the way we understand the world. One famous example is The Treachery of Images, showing a pipe with the words essentially meaning, “This is not a pipe”—because it is actually a picture of a pipe, not the object itself.
