15.12.2025 | Brain-be 2.0
On the first day of each new year, a significant amount of heritage enters the public domain. This is the perfect material to make as freely accessible as possible, although this is not always the case yet. Public Domain Day offers organizations an annual platform to share knowledge and best practices for opening up and making this material (re)usable.
In 2026, we will celebrate the public domain on January 15 at KBR
27.01.2026 > 28.01.2026 | DEFRA
Subject to approval by the Council of Ministers, the sixth call for proposals of the Defence-related Research Action, DEFRA, will be launched soon. In addition, a specific open call in the Human Factors domain and a call in the Space Domain, with dedicated budgets, will run in parallel.
To inform potential applicants about the context, scope and modalities of these calls and to offer them network opportunities, two information days will be held on Tuesday 27 January 2026 and Wednesday 28 January 2026 at the Royal Military Academy.
Till 08.03.2026 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
In a new permanent room dedicated to modern and contemporary art – with displays that will change twice a year – the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium inaugurate their first presentation featuring Belgian painter Georges Meurant (1948–2023) and South African artist Bonolo Kavula (°1992).
This is the first chapter of "Collection Meets", a new series of presentations dedicated to contemporary art that establishes a dialogue between works from the RMFAB collections and pieces from external collections.
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till 09.08.2026 | museum of Natural Sciences
The exhibition FLIGHT reveals how animals and humans achieve to defy the clouds. From hummingbird to drone, peregrine falcon to the Concorde : a fascinating journey into the heart of flight, where nature meets technology. Discover the incredible diversity of all things that fly and make your own paper airplane soar! FLIGHT unravels the mystery of flight in a stunning panorama of fossils, naturalized birds, and model airplanes.
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till 27.09.2026 | africamuseum
This exhibition reflects on colonial propaganda. Original testimonies from past and present, together with surprising collections and photographs, unravel the Congo Panorama; an immense painting that flaunted at the 1913 World Fair in Ghent. It glorified Belgian realisations in Congo and depicted the young Belgian colony as an idyll - a fake news avant la lettre.
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KBR museum
The KBR museum, the place where the manuscript collection of the Burgundian dukes shines, will reopen its doors on 23 May 2025 with a unique musical experience. We will let the sound of polyphonic singers from the 15th and 16th centuries resound!
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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The RMFAB invite themselves into your home! Discover here, alone or with the whole family, everything you need for a virtual journey through art history.
> Museum@ Home
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage
KIK-IRPA offers you the opportunity to discover all the works of Jan Van Eyck in high resolution, as well as a collection of more than 700,000 photos of Belgium's cultural heritage in free access.
> BALaT, our online database
> Discover the œuvre of Jan Van Eyck online
Royal Museums for Art and History
The KMKG-MRAH invites you to explore its collections.
> Masterpieces online
Museum of Musical Instruments (MIM)
Take a look and discover the richness we would like to share with you from behind your screen
> A virtual visit to the MIM
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Explore the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences from your couch!
Visit the halls in 3D on Google Art & Culture and stroll through our gallery Living Planet .
Listen to podcasts/audioguides of the Dinosaur Gallery .
Access our virtual collections .
Go on field trips with our scientists via our YouTube channel.
AfricaMuseum
The importance of digitising museum collections became even more apparent during the closure of museums due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
> Museum collections in 2D+ and 3D
Cast your eyes over a series of 27 collections on various themes relating to history and cultural anthropology.
> Spotlight on the collections
Join us as we walk around the labs, offices and archives of the Royal Museum for Central Africa to meet the scientists who work here.
> AfricaMuseum Podcast
KBR
Toutes les ressources électroniques et les collections numérisées de KBR consultables à distance.
> Liste de toutes les ressources électroniques
Alle e-bronnen en gedigitaliseerde collecties van KBR nu van thuis uit raadpleegbaar
> Lijst met alle beschikbare e-bronnen
DIGIT the Digitization Programme of the Belgian Science Policy
Preserving Belgium's rich cultural and scientific heritage and disclosing those valuable assets for researchers and the general public is important.
> Explore the Collections
