The BELGIAN COMIC STRIP CENTER
In a masterpiece of Art Nouveau designed by Victor Horta (1906),the Belgian Comic Strip Center brings together everything related to the comic strip,from its prestigious beginnings to its most recent developments, on more than 4,000 square metres of museum floors.
One of the major tourist attractions of Brussels, the Center was inaugurated by HM the King and HM the Queen on 3 October 1989.It welcomes 260,000 visitors each year.
Belgian Comics Strip Center
Rue des Sables 20
1000 Brussels
Tel.: + 32 (0)2 219 19 80
Fax: + 32 (0)2 219 23 76
visit(arrobe)comicscenter.net
Open every day (except on Monday) from 10 am to 6 pm.
Flash New
Two of the Belgian Comic Strip Center's touring exhibitions at Enghien-Les-Bains (France).
Until the 10th of October “The Europeans look at the Europeans” and “Our heroes by bike”, two touring exhibitions from the Belgian Comic Strip Center, are displayed at the Médiathèque Georges Sand of Enghien-Les-Bains (France).
Chinese guides
Chinese tourists have been growing more numerous amongst the visitors of the Belgian Comic Strip Center for a while now. Especially for them we now offer a guidebook with Chinese translations of the museum’s texts. English, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese guides were available already to visitors who do not understand French or Dutch.
Last News
Great exhibition
Smurf for All, All for Smurf
10/06/2008 > 16/11/2008
50 Years of Smurfs
Fifty years after their birth, the Smurfs remain among the most popular characters ever created by a Belgian comic strip author.
Exhibition at the Gallery
Napoleon, André Osi
17/06/2008 > 05/10/2008
Volume 1 (Joker Éditions)
The story André Osi tells is not fictional. His Napoleon continues to tell legend of centuries in comic book form.
Next great exhibition
The New Children's Comic Strips
18/11/2008 > 22/02/2009
Their names are Sfar, Trondheim, Robin, de Bonneval or Guibert. With the creation of new graphic forms, in the '90s these storytellers assumed a role of ever-increasing importance.