Cinquantenaire Museum

Cinquantenaire Museum

Musée du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark museum
Front of the museum (2010)
Location within Brussels
Location	Cinquantenaire Park 10 Brussels B-1000 Belgium
Coordinates	50°50′21″N 4°23′31″E / 50.83903°N 4.39187°E / 50.83903; 4.39187
Type	Art, Ethnology and History museum
Public transit access	Schuman and Merode station
Website	www.kmkg-mrah.be

The Cinquantenaire Museum (French: Musée du Cinquantenaire, Dutch: Jubelpark museum) is located in the Jubelpark(Cinquantenaire park) in Brussels, Belgium. It is part of the Royal Museums for Art and History, which is a Belgian federal institute of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO). It is one of the largest museums in Europe.

The collection of the museum is divided into four parts:

Large collection which dates between prehistory to the Merovingian period (751 AD) Collection of antiquity

Collection houses the Egypt, Greece and Rome. Many important and impressive remains from Apamea, Syria, including part of the Great Colonnade and outstanding mosaic floors are on view. The Roman collection also includes a large scale model of the city of Rome during the 4th century AD.

Important collections of artefacts from Asian countries, such as China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and the Americas (showing pre-Columbian civilisations and contemporary societies) and Oceania (particularly Easter Island) and the Islamic world.