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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The Belgian Comic Strip Center is located:
Less than 5 minutes from
La Mort Subite café and St Hubert Galleries, Botanique Cultural Centre, Place de Brouckère, La Monnaie (De Munt) Royal Opera, St Mich(i)el Cathedral, etc
Less than 10 minutes from
City Hall, Grand'Place, Rue des Bouchers (Beenhouwersstraat), Manneken Pis, the Royal Palace, Brussels-No(o)rd and Brussels-Centra(a)l stations, Royal Neighbourhood, The Palace of Fine Arts, , Musical Instruments Museum, Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels Info Place (BIP).
15 minutes (by Underground) from
Heysel/Heizel: Bruparck, Atomium, Mini-Europe, the palace quarter, the European quarter and Cinquantenaire (Jubelpark): Royal Museums of Arts and History, Royal Museum of the Army and Military History, Autoworld, etc
If you are using public transport to get to the Belgian Comic Strip Center, you can apply at www.b-rail.be for a detailed journey plan (using trains, trams, buses, metro,… ) with the route planner putting « Bruxelles, Rue des Sables 20 » as a destination.
Those interested in knowing whether your stay in Brussels is likely to require an umbrella or rather a pair of sunglasses, can take a glance at the weather forecast on www.meteo.be
Every weekend from March till mid-November, the Museum Bus takes you straight to the museum:
www.trammuseumbrussels.be/fr/busdesmusees.html
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Parking
The following are accessible on weekdays – on Saturdays and Sundays it is possible to park closer by
Individuals
Recommended car park: City-Parking, avenue Pachéco (Pachecolaan) (150 metres from BELGIAN COMIC STRIP CENTER – 2,000 spaces)
Coaches
avenue Pachéco (Pachecolaan) (in front of City-Parking)
avenue de l'Empereur (Keizerslaan) (in front of National Bank)
Bicycles
Can be parked in front of the museum.
Tourism
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Last News
Next great exhibition
European Comic Strip Treasures
05/10/2010 > 27/02/2011
At a time when Belgium is holding the presidency of the European Union, the Belgian Comic Centre is delighting the general public with an exceptional selection of original comic strips extracted from so many major works produced by European comic strip artists and writers in the last one hundred years.
Great exhibition
The studio of Franquin, Jijé, Morris and Will
15/06/2010 > 30/01/2011
This exhibition, initiated by Isabelle, André Franquin’s daughter, and with the support of the artist Frédéric Jannin is neither an exhaustive record nor an informative account of La Bande des Quatre. Rather, it is a declaration of love.
Great exhibition
Moomin
02/03/2010 > 29/08/2010
Tove Jansson’s Dreamworld
Popularised around the world through comic strips, the Moomin series is above all a rich and sensitive body of comic strip work, created by Tove Jansson (1914-2001), an essential Finnish illustrator and author.