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The Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium. They include six museums: the Oldmasters Museum, the Magritte Museum, the Fin-de-Siècle Museum, the Antoine Wiertz Museum and the Constantin Meunier Museum. The museum was founded in 1801 by Napoleon Bonaparte and opened in 1803 as the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels. Following Belgium’s independence, the museum was ceded to the state. In 1919, the museum was renamed into the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Belgique). For more information, please see: https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/en. Accessed 2 June 2021.