René Magritte Museum (Jette, Brussels)

Magritte's former home in Jette, Brussels — where he created his most famous paintings. Now an intimate museum with original furnishings.

The René Magritte Museum in Jette occupies the house where the Belgian surrealist lived and worked from 1930 to 1954 — a modest bourgeois townhouse in a quiet outer district of Brussels. Some of his most celebrated works were created here. The collection brings together paintings, gouaches, and drawings by Magritte alongside original furnishings, personal objects, and biographical photographs. It was assembled by art collector André Garitte, who purchased the house and opened it as a museum in 1999. An intimate counterpoint to the larger Magritte Museum in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts.