WONDER
22.07.2018 > 02.09.2018
Science and Culture at the Royal Palace of Brussels
Object 1
Medal offered by King Léopold I to Émile Delannoy de Warneton
Belgium, 1861
Donation of the Friends of the Royal Library
(gold - 41 mm - 66.72 g)
KBR
- Medal Cabinet
Object 2
Double pistol with large head
Posthumous money of Charles Quint,
found in the stomach of a cow at the abattoir in Namur in 1883
France (Besançon workshop), 1578
(gold - 33.4 mm -13.04 g)
KBR - Medal Cabinet
Object 4
Adolphe Sax
Trumpet with six valves and seven bells
Brass
Paris, 1869
MIM (RMAH, 4the dép.)
Object 5
Wonderful coincidences
Minerals and Insects
Assemblage proposed by the Belgian Royal Institute of Natural Sciences
(2018)
KBIN-IRSNB
Object 6
Penicillium vulpinum MUCL 38790 (Phase 1-2-3)
Penicillium crustosum MUCL 43437
Armillaria sp. MUCL 57008
Collection de micro-organismes
BELSPO/BCCM
Object 7
Silver equestrian seal and counterseal of empress Maria-Theresia for the duchies of Brabant and Limburg and the Margraviate of Antwerp
original box, 1753
National Archives of Belgium,
Matrices and Seals Collection, n°6-7
Object 8
Elkington & C°, Silversmiths (manufacturer)
Silver ink-pot offered to Emile Banning by S.M. Léopold II
after the conference of Brussels from 1889-1890, 1890 (uncertain), Great Britain,
WHI, RMM, Brussels, Numismatics
Object 9
Josef Johann Earl Ferraris
Chorographical map of the Austrian Netherlands; board VIII [Brussels]
Engraving on copper by L.A. Dupuis, after 1777
NGI
Object 11
NGI (France)
Ballistic camera No 2
View camera for triangulation by the satellites Echo II (1968)
and Pageos (1968-1970)
NGI
Object 15
Carpentier, Paris
Mascart’s bifilar
Observation of the Earth magnetic declination, ~1875
KMI-
IRM
Object 16
Congosaurus bequaerti (Dollo),
crocodilian fossil
Selandian (ca. 62-59 million years ago)
Collected in 1937 by Edmond Dartevelle along the Landana cliffs, Cabinda, Angola
KMMA-
MRAC
Object 18
Nicolas Schöffer
Lux 11, copy 9/25 (scale 1.5)
Chrome-plated steel
(1967)
KMSKB-MRBAB
Object 19
Dr. GRAW Messgeräte, Germany
Atmospheric sonde GRAW M60
Atmospheric balloon soundings, 1945-1950
KMI-IRM
Object 20
Like you have never seen before!
Saint Bavo's Cathedral Ghent
© www.lukasweb.be – Art in Flanders vzw, photo KIK-IRPA, Brussels
Object 22
Sundial with moving eyes
Gold-plated brass and painted wood
Black Forest, circa 1780-1820
KMKG-MRAH
Object 23
Kanyange, artist sculptor from Buhunde, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
Statuette of King Albert I
ivory, 1933
KMMA-MRAC
