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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.
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Explore the 15th century in our region through the images, stories and characters from the Library of the Dukes of Burgundy.
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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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A ‘new’ Bruegel richer!
KBR’s restoration studio has miraculously discovered a ‘new’ Bruegel print.
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Open workshop: Get started with the “Basses Danses”
Be inspired by the “Basses Danses” and get to work in an open workshop where you do calligraphy like a medieval scribe or paint like a medieval miniaturist.
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Open workshop: Get started with the “Basses Danses”
Be inspired by the “Basses Danses” and get to work in an open workshop where you do calligraphy like a medieval scribe or paint like a medieval miniaturist.
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Digital Heritage Seminar: Humanities Approaches to Semantic Change
Florentina Armaselu talks about Natural Language Processing for detecting lexical semantic change and linguistic Linked Open Data.
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Concert: Reinoud Van Mechelen
Van Mechelen and Romaniuk treat you to music by composer Eduard Lassen.
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Open workshop: Writing with a Quill & Painting with Pigments
Combine your visit to the museum during the Christmas holidays with an open workshop in which you can do calligraphy or paint.
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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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