What type of research should the Royal Museums of Art & History undertake?
For the first time in their history, our museums which house antiquity, ethnography, decorative arts and crafts, and musical instruments collections of the Belgian federal state, have established their long-term research values, principles and priorities.
Check here our research strategy document issued in December 2023.
OLDEgypt – Objects of Life and Death
OLDEgypt is dedicated to the study, recontextualization, and publication of select pieces from the museum’s rich Egyptian collection.
MetaBelgica
Shared entity management infrastructure between Federal Scientific Institutes in Belgium
ENIGMA
Strives for excellence in protecting cultural heritage
ERNEsT
Egypt and its Relationships with the Near East in Medieval Times
Mero-Jewel
Production, Materials and Exchange of Merovingian Jewellery (5th-8th centuries)
Elkab
Archaeological and epigraphical research in Egypt
Cultural goods Second World War
Research on the provenance of works of art
CUNE-IIIF-ORM
Towards an Internationally Image Interoperable Corpus of Cuneiform Tablets
Promatech
Production, Materials and Techniques of Copper Alloy Alms Basins in Northern Europe (15th - 17th centuries)