Masterpieces of the Cinquantenaire Museum of the Cinquantenaire Museum

A visit to the Cinquantenaire Museum is a fascinating world trip through history. The museum houses hundreds of thousands of works of art and historical objects, ranging from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. You will find archaeological finds from Belgium but also and especially from the rest of the world: Egypt, the Near East, Iran, China, Southeast and Central Asia, America and Classical Antiquity. Museum treasures include Hellenistic mosaics from Apamea (Syria), a statuette from Persepolis, tomb busts from Palmyra, and beautiful jewels from the Merovingian period. The museum also has the most important collection of handmade lace in the world and an extensive Art Nouveau collection. The curators of the Cinquantenaire Museum were assigned the difficult task of selecting a hundred masterpieces from the rich museum collection. The result is this edition, in which - for the first time - the absolute masterpieces from the collection of the Cinquantenaire Museum are collected. With high-quality visual material and concise, enlightening commentary that situates the works of art in time and space and provides background information.