Explore Belgium Through Books, Art and Everyday Moments
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Immerse yourself in a landscape of literature, art, flavours, and quiet discovery. From medieval streets to modern voices, this ever-open collection celebrates Belgian culture in all its curious facets. Each piece invites you to linger — in a café by the canal, between the pages of a book, or at the still edge of a winter morning.
Come wander with words and uncover the layers of a place that lives and breathes in two languages and countless stories.
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 24 Do you remember what it felt like to believe ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 23 There are dishes that don’t just feed you—they tell…
There is something almost poetic about a vegetable that requires absolute darkness to find its…
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 22 The ritual begins before the first sip—before the tea ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 21 The winter solstice is one of the most meaningful ……
Germaine Absalon owned Café Vlissinghe in Bruges in the 1950s, and by all accounts, she ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 20 I’m sitting here with a cup of tea and ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 19 After Ghent’s golden towers and Bruges’ brass…
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 18 I’m imagining myself sitting in a Brussels brasserie…
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 17 I’m standing at the edge of the Minnewater—the Lake…
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 16 When the sun sets over Brussels in December, the ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 15 There’s a particular madness that overtakes you in…
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 14 I’m starting today with a cup of coffee—a scented…
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 13 In Belgium, the tree doesn’t come out immediately after…
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 12 As I wandered through the Christmas market in Bruges, ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 11 There’s a particular quality to Belgian light in…
A Flemish Ritual in the Kitchen There’s a particular magic to Ghent that seeps into ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 10 Do you remember when you learned how to look ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 9 You cannot speak of Belgium without speaking of Art ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 8 There’s a particular tyranny in the modern insistence…
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 7 There are places in Brussels where the past doesn’t…
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 6 There are countries you love because you were born ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 5 It wouldn’t be December 5th at The Ritual of ……
On the eve of Saint Nicholas, Belgian children place their shoes by the fireplace, hoping ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 4 “Every town is a state of mind, a mood ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 3 I grew up in Europe’s Eastern-continental climate in the…
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 2 Have you ever watched a flame flicker and felt, ……
Belgian Advent Calendar – Day 1 Welcome back, dear friends, to the fifth edition of ……
