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Visit the KBR museum
Explore the 15th century in our region through the images, stories and characters from the Library of the Dukes of Burgundy.
Reserve your seat in the reading room
You can consult collections in the reading room and study in the study room. Remember to reserve a seat in advance via your MyKBR account.
News
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Livy between manuscript and printed book
The name Titus Livius (known in English as Livy) is a well-known one today. But how did the work of this Roman historian end up in the Library of the Burgundian Dukes?
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Unseen: a “black” manuscript at the KBR museum
Exceptionally admire Margaret of Austria’s “Basses Danses” manuscript on 3 and 4 December.
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One million pages online in BelgicaPeriodicals
This month, BelgicaPeriodicals reached a symbolic milestone: more than one million digitised pages of Belgian periodicals […]
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Agenda
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Digital Heritage Seminar: Detection and Tracking of Events in Historical Press Documents
30.03.2023 @ 14:00 – 15:30Guillaume Bernard (University of La Rochelle) explains how algorithms, datasets and analyses allow researchers to efficiently search digitised old press collections for events.
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Introductory Concert of the 15th Arthur Grumiaux International Violin Competition
31.03.2023 @ 13:00 – 14:30Discover the four Belgian candidates for the 15th edition of the Arthur Grumiaux International Violin Competition, […]
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Concert: Ryelandt Trio
21.04.2023 @ 12:30 – 13:30Ryelandt Trio invites you to discover music by Dubois and Ryelandt.
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Digital Heritage Seminar: Assessing Biases in Digitised Newspaper Collections
25.05.2023 @ 14:00 – 15:30Kaspar Beelen (Alan Turing Institute) introduces the ‘Environmental Scan’ as a method for investigating hidden biases in digitised newspaper collections.
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Digital Heritage Seminar: Reliable Semantic Indexing of Historical Newspapers at Scale
15.06.2023 @ 14:00 – 15:30Maud Ehrmann (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) talks about the challenges for reliable semantic indexing of historical newspapers.
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Read more about KBR’s digitised collections
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The first Antarctic expedition: tracing the voyage of the Belgica
125 years ago, on Monday 16 August 1897, the converted Norwegian sealer ship Belgica left the […]
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Ukiyo-e: discover the digitised collection of Japanese prints
Browse more than 750 Japanese prints online.
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Ukraine’s geopolitical history in 10 old maps
Discover 10 old maps from our cartographic collection that illustrate the geopolitical history of Ukraine.
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KBR acquires autograph manuscript by César Franck
KBR acquired the autograph manuscript of the orchestrated version of the ‘Messe for three voices in A major’ by Liège composer César Franck.
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