Magritte Museum
Townhouse museum holding the world's largest collection of a surrealist painter's work, including his most iconic images.
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This guide to the Magritte Museum in Brussels traces a story that has followed Rene Magritte for a century, that as a boy in 1912 he watched his mother pulled from a Belgian river, her face caught in cloth, and how historians now doubt he was even there. It follows that image of a covered face into his paintings, the bowler-hatted men and veiled lovers held in the world's largest collection of his work, and into the townhouse building's own history before it became a museum in 2009. Look for how the rooms are arranged around that recurring hidden face as you move through them.
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