The Museum of Ixelles (French: Musée d'Ixelles; Dutch: Museum van Elsene), also called the (Municipal) Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles (French: Musée (communal) des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles; Dutch: (Gemeentelijk) Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Elsene), is a municipal art museum in Brussels, Belgium, focusing on Belgian art from the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Museum of Ixelles

Musée d'Ixelles (French) Museum van Elsene (Dutch)
Exterior of the museum
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Established	1892 (1892)
Location	Rue Jean Van Volsem / Jean Van Volsemstraat 71, 1050 Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50°49′54″N 4°22′20″E
Collections	Impressionism, Neo-impressionism, Symbolism
Curator	Claire Leblanc
Website	Official website

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The museum is located at 71, rue Jean Van Volsem/Jean Van Volsemstraat in Ixelles.^[1] It is served by the bus stops Musée d'Ixelles/Museum van Elsene (on line 71)^[2] and Malibran (on lines 38 and 60).^[3][4]

The Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles was founded in 1892 to house a collection of works donated by the painter and collector Edmond De Pratere and grew rapidly with donations from generous patrons such as Léon Gauchez (1825–1907), Fritz Toussaint (1846–1920) and Max Janlet (1903–1976). The art patron Octave Maus (1856–1919) donated more than 200 impressionist, neo-impressionist and symbolist works.^[5]

In 2018, the museum closed for renovations and an expansion. It is planned to reopen in 2023.^[6]

The curators of the museum have been:^[5]

• 1902–1926: Emile Meunier
• 1929–1956: Jean-Joseph Hoslet
• 1957–1987: Jean Cockerel
• 1987–2007: Nicole d'Huart
• 2007–present: Claire Leblanc

The museum presents a panorama of Belgian art of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collections bring together paintings, sculpture, and drawings representing the different art movements of this time. A sampling of Flemish masters and some representatives of foreign schools complete the set. A collection of posters includes a complete collection of originals by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.^[5][7] The museum also regularly organises temporary exhibitions and has a documentation centre.^{[citation needed]}

• Portrait of Jeanne Meunier, Constantin Meunier
• Child with a doll, Eugène Smits
• The Sonian Forest, Joseph Coosemans
• Young girl by the sea, Charles Hermans
• The young ladies van den Perre, Jan Verhas, 1887
• Senette in Ruisbroek, Guillaume Vogels
• Turbulent sea, Isidore Verheyden, 1893
• Terril of the coal mine, Maximilien Luce, 1896
• The tea (Portrait of Juliette and Rodolphe Wytsman), Herman Richir, c. 1898
• May rain. Basque Country, Dario De Regoyos, 1902
• Pink house, Henri-Edmond Cross, c. 1901–1905
• Farm in Flanders, Emile Claus, 1904
• Nude, Georges Lemmen, 1907
• Spirea, Juliette Wytsman
• House by the water, Paul Mathieu, 1918

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• History of Brussels
• Culture of Belgium
• Belgium in the long nineteenth century