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      • In the footsteps of Bart Van Loo and the Burgundians in the KBR museum
        21.03.2026 @ 08:00 - 18.10.2026 @ 17:00

        Bart Van Loo invites you to view one of the most fascinating periods of our history […]

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        Self-guided workshop: writing with a quill & painting with pigments
        29.08.2026 - 26.08.2026

        At the end of the Middle Ages, Brussels belonged to the dukes of Burgundy. These rich […]

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        Public meeting on the Congolines project
        12.09.2026 @ 14:00 - 16:00

        On 12 September 2026, KBR will host the third public meeting dedicated to the Congolines research […]

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Research

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    From Script to Sound: Connecting Heritage and Art through Research and Technology

    Mission Together with the Alamire Foundation, KU Leuven’s International Centre for the Study of Music in […]

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    CultuR-AI: Culture Re(enrichment) & AI

    Mission CultuR-AI aims to develop open-source, modular Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) workflows within the CLARIN frameworks […]

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    Virtual Lab

    E-infrastructure for Facilitating Access and Research of KBR’s Collections as Data Mission To develop an automated […]

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    Congolines

    Project Presentation Congolines. Inscribing lines, weaving threads. Congolese colonial paintings as images and objects, a project […]

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    FedOSC

    Towards a Federal Open Science Cloud Scope of the FedOSC project The project Federal Open Science […]

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    Belgicaweb

    BelgicaWeb aims to make born-digital heritage of Belgium accessible and FAIR. Born-digital heritage is digitally created […]

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    Be Comics Lab

    Comics Legacy: from a new historical object towards contemporary creation Although comics are recognised as national […]

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    NAVEZ project

    FWO research project centralized around the network of Francois-Joseph Navez (1787-1869) and his influence on the […]

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    Pop Heritage Lab

    A new approach to the online exploration and curation of Belgian mass-market print heritage Popular Heritage […]

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    MetaBelgica

    A shared entity management infrastructure between Federal Scientific Institutes in Belgium About the project Federal Scientific […]

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    LabEL: Laboratory for Electronic Literature

    The Laboratory for Electronic Literature (LabEL) was founded in 2022 to investigate and archive electronic literature. […]

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    Data Science Lab

    AI for cultural heritage The KBR Data Science Lab serves as a research and development hub […]

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    Magister dixit

    Lecture notes from the University of Leuven in KBR This project aims at digitising and disclosing […]

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    BELTRANS

    Intra-Belgian literary translations since 1970 Scope of this project The project Intra-Belgian literary translations since 1970 […]

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    LOD-ISNI

    Linked open data (LOD) and ISNI as a crucial bridge identifier for cultural heritage Scope of […]

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    CAMille (KBR-ULB)

      Research centre and digital archives dedicated to the history of journalism in Belgium   Founded in […]

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    DATA-KBR-BE

    Facilitating data-level access to KBR’s digitised and born-digital collections for digital humanities research About the project […]

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    ARTPRESSE

    Intermedial study of Belgian art as a network structured as seen through the lens of the […]

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    BESOCIAL

    The value of social media Did you know that every second ~6,000 tweets1 and six new […]

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    Digital Research Lab

    A lab for text and data mining research on KBR’s digitised and born-digital collections. The KBR […]

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    European Observatory of Written Heritage

    In the framework of the ‘International Networking of the Belgian Federal Scientific Institutions’ programme funded by […]

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    Rijmbijbel of Jacob van Maerlant

    In collaboration with Lieve Watteeuw (KU Leuven – Illuminare) and the laboratories of KIK-IRPA, the Manuscripts Department and […]

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    Regional monetary economies

    Background This project forms part of the IAP 07/09 project, under the direction of Prof. Jeroen […]

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    FINGERPRINT

    FINGERPRINT is an interdisciplinary collection and data management project, involving art history, art technical research, digital […]

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    Cartesius

    Dear user, The Cartesius project website is temporarily unavailable. We are doing our utmost to resolve […]

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    ADOCHS – Auditing Digital Outputs in the Cultural Heritage Sector

    The ADOCHS project is a four-year project dedicated to the improvement of the quality control process […]

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    PROMISE project

    A federal strategy for the preservation of the Belgian web The project Preserving Online Multiple Information: towards […]

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    Maddlain

    The MADDLAIN project (01/04/2015 to 30/09/2017) aims to analyse the behaviour and the needs of different audiences with […]

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