In the Grand Place car park, a permanent exhibition is helping us to relive our automobile past. Thanks to a collection of historical petrol pumps, the exhibition shows how our mobility has developed from the petrol pump to the electric charging point. An initiative of Interparking, supported by the FSA Fund.
The new thematic Fund Encourager les Jeunes Talents, the Orcona Fund and the Fiends of the CODART Foundation are launching a call for projects to enable museums or other cultural institutions in Belgium to engage young curators under 30 for a 6-month period, alongside a mentor. Deadline 14 May, 2026.
From 14 to 19 March 2026, the King Baudouin Foundation is taking part at TEFAF Maastricht as Museum Partner, in international recognition of the Foundation’s role in preserving Belgium’s cultural heritage. The Foundation will exhibit Belgian masterpieces and highlight international patronage.
Thanks to the Raphaël and Françoise Haeven Fund, the King Baudouin Foundation has enriched the collection of the Design Museum Brussels with an Art Deco style rug that is emblematic of the Belgian textile artist Elisabeth De Saedeleer. The work will be presented to the public in preview at BRAFA.
The project Le Timbre des Objets (The Sound of Objects), supported by the Irène Heidebroek and Eliane van Duyse Fund, has catalogued 100 endangered objects and created a sound guide, together with students and artists, with the aim of preserving their acoustic heritage and exploring new forms of inclusive narratives.
Our new book Ethnography & Photography. The De Fraeye-Verburg Collection offers a richly layered perspective on cultural diversity — an invitation to connect, understand and engage in dialogue across worlds, past and present.
