René Magritte House
René Magritte House is a museum in Jette, Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital. René Magritte House is situated nearby to Museum of Abstract Art, as well as near the community center GC Essegem.Photo: Victoria Berreau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: former house of René Magritte and Georgette Berger in Jette, Brussels
- Also known as: “Maison René Magritte - René Magrittehuis”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include René Magritte Museum and Church of Our Lady of Lourdes.
René Magritte Museum
Museum
Photo: Victoria Berreau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The René Magritte Museum is a museum in Jette, a municipality in Brussels, Belgium, devoted to the surrealist artist René Magritte. The museum is located at 135, rue Esseghem/Esseghemstraat, in the house where Magritte lived and worked for twenty-four years, between 1930 and 1954.
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
Church
Photo: Grentidez, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes is situated 380 metres south of René Magritte House.
Jette railway station
Railway station
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Jette railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Jette in Brussels, Belgium, opened in 1892. The station, operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium, is located south of King Baudouin Park on the Place Cardinal Mercier/Kardinaal Mercierplein. Jette railway station is situated 670 metres northwest of René Magritte House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jette and Miroir - Spiegel.
Jette
Town
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jette is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the north-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Ganshoren, Koekelberg, and Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, as well as the Flemish municipalities of Asse and Wemmel.
Miroir - Spiegel
Neighborhood
Photo: Smiley.toerist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Miroir - Spiegel is a neighborhood.
Laken
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Laeken or Laken is a residential suburb in the north-western part of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. It belongs to the municipality of the City of Brussels and is mostly identified by the Belgian postal code: 1020.
René Magritte House
- Categories: terrace house, historic house museum, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Jette, Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital, Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.87668° or 50° 52′ 36″ northLongitude
4.33565° or 4° 20′ 8″ eastInception
1925Operator
Museum René Magritte MuséeNamed after
René MagritteOpen location code
9F26V8GP+M7OpenStreetMap ID
way 224115379OpenStreetMap feature
building=museumOpenStreetMap feature
historic=apartmentWikidata ID
Q1718294
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Irish—“René Magritte House” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ռենե Մագրիտի թանգարան”
- Catalan: “Museu René Magritte”
- Chinese: “雷內·馬格利特博物館”
- Czech: “Musée René Magritte”
- Czech: “Muzeum Reného Magritta”
- Czech: “René Magritte Museum”
- Danish: “René Magritte Hus”
- Dutch: “René Magritte Museum”
- Dutch: “René Magrittehuis”
- French: “Maison René Magritte”
- German: “René-Magritte-Haus”
- Irish: “Iarsmalann René Magritte”
- Irish: “Teach René Magritte”
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Highlights include Museum of Abstract Art and GC Essegem.
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