Overview of conferences, open days and exhibitions of the Federal Scientific Institutes organised by, or in association with, the Federal Science Policy Office.
Events
Conferences and symposia
> 04/05-07-2013 | PROBING VEGETATION Conference: from past to future
SPOT-VEGETATION turns 15 in May 2013! After a long and successful career as Europe’s first truly operational system for global monitoring of vegetation, the mission is now nearing the end of its life cycle. But the story continues! The role of SPOT-VEGETATION will be taken over by ESA’s technologically advanced PROBA-V mission from the summer of 2013 onwards. To celebrate with us the operational and scientific achievements of SPOT-VEGETATION and to look forward to the intriguing perspectives that will be offered to the user’s community by PROBA-V, BELSPO and VITO are delighted to invite you to the “PROBING VEGETATION Conference: from past to future”.
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Programm
> Exhibition "Satellites and World Heritage sites, partners to understand climate change"
The glaciers of Patagonia are melting, as are those of the Everest, the highest mountain on Earth. Desertification is gaining ground in Africa, and the resulting sand storms are burying and damaging the great mosques in Timbuktu, the Giza pyramids and many other sites.
The exhibition shows a wide variety of climate change effects on World Heritage sites and explains the inputs provided by space technologies to understand the causes and effects of climate change on these sites.
Read more about the exhibition on the EOEdu website...
> Exhibition "Imaging the World's forests"
This travelling exhibition has been realized jointly by the Belgian Science Policy Office, the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) and the Earth and Life Institute from the Université catholique de Louvain on the occasion of the International Year of Forests 2011.
It aims to show how satellite images can help to better manage and preserve the forests of our planet.
Read more about the exhibition on the EOEdu website...
Conferences, symposia and education activities
of the Federal Scientific Institutes
22-05-2013 | The Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society
Seminar with Véronique Lhorme: Propaganda Kompanien, Reporters du IIIe Reich
25/26-05-2013 | Royal Meteorological Institute
Concours : Sur les pas de Felix Baumgartner! (avant le 15/04/2013) et journées portes ouvertes
Wedstrijd: Felix Baumgartner achterna! (voor 15/04/2013) en opendeurdagen
25/26-05-2013 | Royal Observatory of Belgium
Le Pôle Espace ouvre ses portes - De Pool Ruimte opent de deuren
> 30-06-2013 | Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Calendrier
des activités organisées en Belgique dans le cadre de la Journée internationale
de la biodiversité (22 mai 2013)
Kalender met activiteiten in België in het kader van de Internationale Dag van de Biodiversiteit (22 mei 2013)
31-10-2013 | Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage
Conference on photo conservation
Many institutions (museums, libraries, archives, etc.) that have photographic collections are facing problems concerning their management: storage, inventory, digitalization, access, copyright issues, status and value attached to the collection etc. The conference offers professional confronted with these problems an occasion to develop a practical and ethical framework for the conservation of photographic collections.
29-11-2013 | Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage
From Carpentry to Joinery: Study Day
In collaboration with the University of Namur, the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Royal Museums for Art and History (MRAH-KMKG), organises the study day “From Carpentry to Joinery: floors and ceilings, shutters and frames, doors and panelling in Medieval and Modern Architecture” as part of the series of scientific meetings started by the research group AcanthuM (University of Namur) on the theme of construction finishings and fittings.
Exhibitions
of the Federal Scientific Institutes
> 15-05-2013 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Jan Fabre. Chapters I-XVIII. Waxes & Bronzes
The artist will stage-manage a classic sculptures gallery with a serial presentation of 36 contemporary busts in traditional wax and bronze, all fascinating heads with animal horns and ears.
> 19-05-2013 | Musical Instruments Museum
Hard Rock couture
Depuis la révolution rock des fifties, mode et musique ont toujours été intimement liés. Le Hard Rock Café nous fait l’honneur de sortir de ses placards quelques un des plus beaux et célèbres costumes de scène de l’histoire de la pop.
Hard Rock couture
Van bij het ontstaan van de rockmuziek in de jaren 1950 was er een sterke band met de mode. Het Hard Rock Café heeft een indrukwekkende verzameling concert-outfits en parafernalia aangelegd.
> 25-05-2013 | Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2013
Jozef Wouters: Zoological Institute for Recently Extinct Species Creation
> 25-05-2013 | Royal Library of Belgium
Kunstenfestivaldesarts "Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine"
> 26-05-2013 | Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Prehistory
– Do it yourself
Découvrez avec quelle ingéniosité nos ancêtres préhistoriques utilisaient le
monde qui les entourait.
Prehistorie
- Do it yourself
Ontdek hoe inventief onze voorouders gebruik maakten van de wereld rondom hen.
> 09-06-2013 | Royal Library of Belgium
Hieronymus Cock - La gravure à la Renaissance (Extra muros)
La Bibliothèque royale de Belgique possède une véritable mine de documents ayant appartenu à Cock et à sa maison d’édition ‘Aux Quatre Vents’. A voir au Museum M Leuven.
Hieronymus
Cock - De Renaissance in prent (Extra muros)
De Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België bezit een schat aan gravures en etsen van Cock en zijn uitgeverij ‘In de vier winden’. Te bewonderen in Museum M Leuven.
> 09-06-2013 | Royal Museums for Art and History
Hokusai - Views of Mount Fuji and other landscapes
The Museum of Japanese Art will present a selection of Hokusaï prints representing Japanese landscapes and the wonderful suite Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji.
> 30-06-2013 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
KANDINSKY & RUSSIA
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is known as the founder of abstract art. Almost 150 masterpieces are on loan from the St. Petersburg State Museum and other important Russian institutions are gathered for the first time in Brussels.
> summer 2013 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Expressionism and expression..
For the fourth edition, the conservators of the Modern Art department have chosen paintings of the Belgian expressionist key figures in the RMA collection: Constant Permeke, Frits Van den Berghe and Gustave De Smet. Besides, artists as Rik Wouters or Jakob Smits, who do not belong to the official canon, are represented.
> 11-08-2013 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
COURBET. Realism of the 'living art' to the 'free art'
This dossier exhibition is structured around the six paintings of Courbet in our own museum collection. These exquisite landscapes and portraits will be confronted with a selection of paintings of other Belgian Realistic artists and will be supplemented by some targeted loans. The exhibition will contain about twenty paintings, drawings and other graphic documents.
> 31-08-2013 | Royal Museum for Central Africa
The Vonpischmeyer Collection
The Vonpischmeyer Collection is the result of a detailed observation of African sculpture. Original master in the art of recycling, Olivier Goka devised this real-fake collection by conscientiously assembling whole or parts of plastic objects.
> 31-10-2013 | State Archives
Enfants Non Admis. La commission de contrôle des films, 1921-2005
Le cinéma suscite certaines craintes dès son apparition. Ce nouveau média présenterait, selon certains, un danger pour les enfants. Mais que fait-on alors des principes du libéralisme et de la liberté de la presse? En 2012, les Archives de l’État inventorient les archives de la Commission belge de contrôle des films.
Kinderen Niet Toegelaten. De filmkeuringscommissie, 1921-2005
Film wekte van bij z’n ontstaan argwaan. Vooral voor kinderen zou het nieuwe medium “gevaarlijk” zijn. Maar wat dan met principes als liberalisme en persvrijheid? In 2012 inventariseerde het Rijksarchief het archief van de Belgische Filmkeuringscommissie: een mijlpaal voor de film- en mentaliteitsgeschiedenis!
> 16-03-2014 | Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Baby Animals An exhibition designed for children from 3 to 8 years of age.
Future Exhibitions
of the Federal Scientific Institutes
> 13-09-2013 - 12-01-2014 | Royal Museums for Art and History
Henry Van de Velde – Passion, function and beauty
This exhibition will be a chronological survey of the life and work of this multi-facetted
artist, based on a never previously seen assembly of works of art and a multitude
of documents, including photographs and letters.
> 13-09-2013 - 19-01-2014| Royal Museums for Art and History
L’art du contour. Le dessin dans l'Egypte ancienne
Dans l’Egypte ancienne, les dessinateurs et les peintres étaient appelés "scribes des contours", l’art graphique égyptien se définissant, avant tout par les tracés qui entourent les formes et les surfaces dans lesquelles les couleurs peuvent s’exprimer, avec toute la richesse de leurs nuances. L’exposition "L’art du contour", d’abord présentée au Musée du Louvre à Paris d’avril à juillet 2013, montre l’importance du dessin dans la civilisation pharaonique.
Schrijvers van contouren. Tekenkunst in het Oude Egypte
In het Oude Egypte werden tekenaars en schilders 'schrijvers van de contouren' genoemd. De Egyptische tekenkunst werd immers in de eerste plaats bepaald door lijnen die vormen en vlakken omgeven en zo omtrekken schetsen waarbinnen kleuren in al hun schakeringen tot schittering kunnen komen. De tentoonstelling 'Meesterschap in omtrek', die eerst in het Musée du Louvre in Parijs wordt voorgesteld van april tot juli 2013, toont het belang aan van de tekenkunst in de faraonische beschaving.
> 26-09-2013 - 30-11-2013 | Royal Library of Belgium
Henry van de Velde. Lettres d’architectes
L’exposition « Henry van de Velde. Lettres d’architectes » nous fait entrer dans l’intimité des amitiés nouées par ce grand Belge dans le monde de l’architecture internationale.
Henry van de Velde. Brieven van architecten
De tentoonstelling ‘Henry van de Velde. Brieven van architecten’ biedt een intieme inkijk in de architecturale en amicale leefwereld van deze internationale Belg.
> 11-10-2013 - 25.01.2014 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN - Painting in Brussels 1450 - 1520
The exhibition seeks to present an overview of Belgian pictorial production between the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century - a time when Brussels was rapidly expanding and the Dukes of Burgundy had chosen the Palace of Coudenberg as their preferred residence.
And also...
National Botanique Garden of Belgium
Exhibition "La Musa"
> 29-09-2013
Exhibition of Pictures "Colours and Shapes "
> 20-10-2013
Euro Space Center (Redu)
An original universe for your FAMILY DAYS
Space adventure Camps (from 8 year)