Belgian Comic Strip Center

Belgian Comic Strip Center
Belgian Comic Strip Center
Centre belge de la Bande dessinée (French)
Belgisch Centrum voor het Beeldverhaal (Dutch)
Established October 6, 1989[1]
Location Belgium Brussels, Belgium
Type History of Belgian comics
Visitor figures More than 200,000 per year[1]
Public transit access Brussels-Central
Website comicscenter.net
Life-size model of a scene from The Adventures of Tintin: Explorers on the Moon (1954).

The Belgian Comic Strip Center (Dutch: Belgisch Centrum voor het Beeldverhaal, French Centre belge de la Bande dessinée) chronicles the history of Belgian comics. Housed in a former department store in Brussels' business district, it exhibits examples of comic strips in French, Dutch and English.

The full range of comic art is covered, including science fiction, wild west, crime and politics, as well as children's comics such as The Smurfs.

It has several exhibits on Belgium's most famous comic characters Tintin and Snowy and their creator Hergé. The style of the Tintin comics and their history is examined, including life-size models of characters and sets from Tintin's adventures. There is a shop, research library and restaurant on the ground floor of the historic building, which was designed by the Belgian art nouveau architect Victor Horta.

Contents

Gallery

  • Exterior facade of the museum

  • Pannonceau
    Rue Schtroumpf

  • The lunar rocket of Tintin

  • The shadow of Lucky Luke

  • Library

  • The staircase at the entrance

  • The main lighting of the building from the roof

  • Floor

  • Floor

  • Alternate view of the second floor

  • Entrance to the PUBLIART space

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "About Us > In Short". Brussels, Belgium: Belgian Comic Strip Center. http://www.comicscenter.net/en/about-us/in-short. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 

External links

Coordinates: 50°51′04″N 4°21′36″E / 50.85111°N 4.36°E / 50.85111; 4.36


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