Comics Art Museum

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The Comics Art Museum, an accomplished attraction located in the heart of Brussels!

In an exceptional Art Nouveau building designed by Victor Horta, the Smurfs lead the way to all comic strip secrets, through permanent and temporary exhibitions covering the works from the pioneers to the most recent trends of the 9th art.
  • Close to Central Station • Public Transport : bus, tram and metro (Rogier, Botanique).
    • Paying Public Car Parkings.
  • 2,6 Rogier - Botanique
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  • Opening times

    24/03/2023 - 12/11/2023: * monday: closed * tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 10:00 to 18:00

  • Price

    Pass musées: 0,00 € - Seniors: 10,00 € - Enfants: 6,00 € - Jeunes: 10,00 € - Normal: 13,00 € - Article 27: 1,25 €

Bronze Adhemar laureate Judith Vanistendael (1974) is a true ambassador of comics and reaches a wide and international audience with her drawings. She always delivers socially relevant comics, always in a different style. Thus, it should not be a surprise that she is influencing the new generation of comics creators. Vanistendael is a master in creating the right atmosphere and scenography and each of her comic books can rightly be called a true piece of art. A piece of art that is carefully constructed, that gets under your skin, that alternates melancholy with lightheartedness, that touches and that is beautifully moving every time.

  • Opening times

    07/04/2023 - 01/10/2023: * monday: closed * tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 10:00 to 18:00

  • Price

    Pass musées: 0,00 € - Jeunes: 10,00 € - Enfants: 6,00 € - Seniors: 10,00 € - Normal: 13,00 € - Article 27: 1,25 €

ODYSSEY is an exhibition that places the heritage work of Blake and Mortimer in its aesthetic, cultural and historical context with the purpose to be (re)discovered by the public in all its facets. Five themes run throughout the exhibition: A Modern Homer, The world, a theatre, The Ray of Death, Terra Incognita and The Eternal Return.  While walking by the original panels and documents, of course by E.P. Jacobs, but as well created by Etienne Schréder and Christian Cailleux, you discover how the famous album “The U Ray” is one of the missing links between American comics and the Franco-Belgian comic album.   Curator: Eric Dubois In cooperation with the E.P. Jacobs Foundation and Editions Blake & Mortimer

  • Opening times

    09/09/2023 - 24/08/2024: * monday: closed * tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 10:00 to 17:00

  • Price

    Jeunes: 10,00 € - Normal: 13,00 € - Seniors: 10,00 € - Enfants: 6,00 € - Pass musées: 0,00 € - Article 27: 1,25 €

The second floor of our Comics Art Museum brings the old Waucquez warehouse back to life. From 8 September 2023, this floor will host an exhibition celebrating 77 years of publishing house Le Lombard, in a brand new setting. Designed as a large furniture showroom, the exhibition presents 77 years of family comics. You will discover the origins of Le Lombard, its mythology, its pioneers, its poster boys, its frontiersmen and mavericks. Room by room you will discover the extraordinary richness of a catalogue first built around the legendary magazine Tintin and the graphic style so dear to Hergé, and then reinvented as society and the publishing world evolved. The exhibition offers a playful and inventive look, with never-before-seen documents, images, archives, projections and beautiful originals hidden in fake furniture. Curator: Thierry Bellefroid With the support of the Brussels Capital Region, the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the National Lottery and its players

  • Opening times

    21/09/2023 - 10/12/2023: * monday: closed * tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 10:00 to 18:00

  • Price

    Jeunes: 10,00 € - Enfants: 6,00 € - Normal: 13,00 € - Seniors: 8,00 € - Pass musées: 0,00 € - Article 27: 1,25 €

The exhibition Visions of tomorrow & Living together shows the work of the 10 winners of the Comic Art Europe project. These authors will present their own "visions of tomorrow" and, together, question our current world. For more than two years, the Belgian Comic Strip Center, has been involved in the European project Comic Art Europe together with three other major comics actors: the Lyon BD Organisation (France), the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (England) and the Escola Joso de Comics (Spain). Artists: Filipa Beleza (Portugal), Marine des Mazery (France), Karrie Fransman (United-Kingdom), Maria Surducan (Romania), Meikel Mathias (Germany), Silvia L. Ballart (Spain), Bernard Hage (Lebanon), James Albon (United-Kingdom), Štěpánka Jislová (Czech Republic), Eva Pavlič (Slovenia). Curators: Jordi Sempere, Richard Foster. The exhibition "Visions of tomorrow & Living together" is a production of Comic Art Europe, co-funded by the European Union's Creative Europe programme.

  • Opening times

    01/12/2023 - 31/03/2024: * monday: closed * tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 10:00 to 18:00

  • Price

    Normal: 13,00 € - Jeunes: 10,00 € - Enfants: 6,00 € - Seniors: 10,00 € - Article 27: 1,25 €

Since the Belgian Comic Art Museum moved into one of Victor Horta's architectural beauties, it brings together Art Nouveau and Ninth Art. So, as Brussels celebrates its Art Nouveau, the Comic Museum is delighted to present a new exhibition highlighting the richness of the theme and the inventiveness of the artists. Besides simply representing Art Nouveau in comics, the exhibition will highlight, in an original way, the relationship between the two arts. The exhibition will invite visitors to immerse themselves in the period of Art Nouveau, its influences and its main authors (such as Alphonse Mucha, for example) who inspired the Ninth Art. A selection of plates and reproductions will allow visitors to (re)discover the work of some Franco-Belgian authors who were inspired by Art Nouveau to create works in its image: strong, rhythmic, colourful and with exceptional creative freedom...