Bruxelles 1900

Entry valid for 15 minutes, unguided visit. Free for under-18s, jobseekers and recipients of minimum welfare benefits. Important: reduced rates are only available at the museum's ticket desks. The museum is closed on Mondays, 11 November, 25 December and 1 January.

Brussels 1900 From 10 November 2026 to 10 April 2027. After Paris 1900, the Petit Palais devotes a major exhibition to Brussels, a European capital in the midst of an artistic and intellectual boom at the turn of the 20th century.

For the first time in France, painting, sculpture, decorative and graphic arts, photography, architecture, jewellery and fashion are brought together to bear witness to the creative vitality that made Brussels one of the leading centres of modernity.

The exhibition brings together iconic masterpieces: Léon Frédéric's monumental triptychs, Victor Horta's furniture ensembles and models, posters from the Salon des XX, and jewellery by Philippe Wolfers.

This dialogue between disciplines illustrates a flourishing whose influence extended far beyond Belgium's borders. From the 1900 Universal Exhibition onwards, the Belgian section was hailed in Paris as a true "artistic renaissance".

This recognition sealed the growing importance of Belgium, a young nation-state founded in 1830 and driven by spectacular economic and industrial growth.

Brussels then established itself as the country's political and intellectual heart, but also as an international showcase where the arts played an identity-defining role.

From the 1880s onwards, a rich microcosm of artists, writers and critics gathered there: Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Ensor, Khnopff, Van Rysselberghe, Claus.

The circles L'Essor, Les XX and then La Libre Esthétique gave this generation a space for experimentation open to Europe, welcoming Cézanne, Gauguin, Denis and Rodin. Symbolism, naturalism, social art and idealism crossed paths there, making Brussels a genuine