The King Baudouin Foundation’s Heritage Fund has recently acquired a major work by the Belgian painter Léon Spilliaert in a sale at Sotheby’s, Paris. The painting will be entrusted to the Fine Arts Museum of Ghent.
A study day at the BELvue Museum on 5 October 2015 will focus on ethnographic and non-European collections. The common theme for the day will be the challenges facing the conservation and presentation of such collections.
La Chronique des Amerois, (The Amerois Chronicle) part of the Goffinet archives in the King Baudouin Foundation Collection, will be on show at the Royal Palace this summer.
As of 14 June 2015, the Royal Mariemont Museum is exhibiting part of an exceptional collection of Coptic textiles, comprising over two hundred pieces collected by Maria Luise Fill and Robert Trevisiol and recently donated to the King Baudouin Foundation.
Discover these amazing masks, used for male initiation ceremonies. They form part of the Belgian Jesuits’ ethnographic heritage. By lending its support to this exhibition, the Heritage Fund hopes to increase awareness of forgotten ethnographic collections.
