What type of research should the Royal Museums of Art & History undertake?
For the first time in their history, our museums which house antiquity, ethnography, decorative arts and crafts, and musical instruments collections of the Belgian federal state, have established their long-term research values, principles and priorities.
Check here our research strategy document issued in December 2023.

Sura
Unlocking the photographic archives of the pioneering years of Egyptology at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels

Collection Care
Innovative and affordable service for the Preventive Conservation monitoring of individual Cultural Artefacts during display, storage, handling and transport

DIGIT-04
Digitization Programme of the Belgian Science Policy

Pyramids & Progress
Belgian Expansionism and the making of Egyptology, 1830-1952

PHySICAL
Profound study of Hydrous and Solvent Interactions in Cleaning Asian Lacquer

Fenestra
800 Years of fenestration history. Flat glass and windows in Federal Scientific Institutes

MIMO
Database of musical instruments held in public collections