With war looming, W.H. Auden stood in a museum and was inspired to write. The resulting poem, “Musée des Beaux Arts,” is one of the most famous ever written about art.

With suffering on his mind, Auden spends a day in the Musée des Beaux Arts in Brussels. In one room, three paintings by the Dutch Master Brueghel draw his attention.

In December 1938, on a visit to Brussels, W.H. Auden went to the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, which furnished the inspiration for this poem, published in 1940. It was a tense time in ...

Musée des Beaux Arts is ranked #5 out of 10 things to do in Lyon. See pictures and our review of Musée des Beaux Arts.

The winds of change are blowing through the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. The construction of the Espace Riopelle is transforming the museum complex. The Musée knew it needed to ...

Just moments from the Beaux-Arts Museum, is the center for fine arts, Bozar — confusingly both are pronounced the same way. Bozar is the most-visited cultural destination in Brussels, home to all ...

Arising from the historic town fortifications, David Chipperfield Architects’ new Musée des Beaux-arts is situated on the periphery of a long green space in between the old and new parts of ...

Barozzi Veiga “We chose David Chipperfield as vice president of the jury because we wanted a functional museum rather than a cream tart of a building,” explains Bernard Fibicher, director of the Musée ...

The Musée des beaux-arts Montréal is the biggest museum in the city and one of the most popular public galleries in the entire country, attracting more than 1.3 million people last year.

"Working on repositioning the brand image of an institution as iconic as the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec was an invigorating and rewarding challenge for Kabane.

David Chipperfield Architects have won a competition to design a museum of fine arts in the city of Reims, France with proposals for a building clad in translucent white marble and glass ...