Summary
Swelled by substantial donations (most notably from the artist's widow, Georgette), this display soon spilled over several floors, becoming the world's biggest Magritte collection. The Royal Museums of Fine Art hope that the Magritte Museum will do for Brussels what the Van Gogh Museum has done for Amsterdam, providing a focal point and a gateway to the city's other galleries.
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Nothing Is As It Seems
The Place Royale is full of men in bowler hats. A huge boulder floats above them, defying gravity and good taste. From a distance it looks unfathomable, but when you come closer you realise the boulder is a hot-air balloon and the bowler hats are plastic.
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