Belgian Comics Strip Center
Rue des Sables 20
1000 Brussels
Tel.: + 32 (0)2 219 19 80
Fax: + 32 (0)2 219 23 76
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Permanent Exhibitions
Victor Horta Area
This area on the ground floor is accessible free of charge and pays tribute to the great Art Nouveau architect and master by sketching the history of Waucquez Warehouse which opened in 1906. On show is a stone weighing several tonnes, the final remnant of the famous Maison du Peuple (Volkshuis), a masterpiece of Horta's which sadly no longer exists.
The Birth of a Comic Strip
All you ever wanted to know about the journey a comic strip artist has to make, from concept to shop. Eye-catcher: the Plunk, an established merchandising hero in the Comic Strip Centre long before his adventures were committed to paper in a series published by Dupuis.
Saint-Roch Room – The Treasury
In the middle ages, the most precious relics constituted the “treasure” of a religious order, of an abbey or a church. They legitimized the foundation and the existence of the order itself, of the congregation or the community. In this room, the Belgian Comic Strip Center's collection of original documents (sketches, studies, pencil drawings, colourings, full pages, covers, manuscripts, etc. ), deposited by the authors or acquired by the Belgian Comic Strip Center, is exhibited in rotation. They literally make up the “treasure” of the Comic Strip Centre.
The Museum of Imagination (1929-1959)
This takes the visitor on a grand journey through the imagination of the pioneers of Belgian comics. From Hergé (Tintin, 1929) to Roba (Boule et Bill, 1959), passing by Jijé, Jacobs, Vandersteen or elsewhere Franquin, Peyo or Morris. It represents the first half of a voyage through sixty years of creativity, through the imagination of the pioneers.
The Gallery
Each day, in each genre, each style and each language, from classic to contemporary, from fantasy to satire, from autobiography over crime until heroic fantasy, new works are published in albums thus enriching our extraordinary comic heritage. This exhibition room, The Gallery, is dedicated to those works that make up today’s landscape in comics.
Last News
Great exhibition
77 years of Romanian comics
25/10/2011 > 20/05/2012
It is to the credit of Romanian comic strip artists that they have been able to produce such original work of great talent – the fruit of a long inheritance – in the trials and tribulations of a century during which their society has suffered particularly.
Exhibition at the Gallery
Marc Wasterlain
17/01/2012 > 04/03/2012
Les Pixels et les Mini Dinosaures
The publication of the third Pixels album presents the Belgian Comic Strip Center with the ideal opportunity to pay tribute to an essential Franco-Belgian comic strip author.
Next great exhibition
100 years of Marten Toonder
07/02/2012 > 23/09/2012
In 2012, Maarten Toonder would have been 100 years old, and it is also the start of the Toonder year. We will be made well aware of it too! In addition to a number of exhibitions in the Netherlands, the publication of a new Tom Puss story and the première of a new B. Bumble musical, the Belgian Comic Strip Center also very much aims to be part of the celebrations.