[1] René Magritte, originally from the Walloon province of Hainaut, moved to Brussels in 1915 at the age of 17 and lived in seven different apartments until his death in 1967.

Back in Belgium, Magritte and his wife Georgette rented the ground floor apartment of 135, rue Esseghem.

The apartment also served as headquarters for the Brussels surrealist group of which Magritte was then a part and which included Paul Nougé, E.L.T.

After Georgette's death in 1986, there were requests to convert the couple's last villa into a museum, but this failed due to a lack of financial resources and support from state institutions.

André Garitte, an art collector and a fan of Belgian Surrealism, began in the following years to acquire property from the Magrittes.

[5] Magritte's former apartment is located on the ground floor of the brick terraced house, typical of the Brussels region.

Georgette's Gunther piano, and the modernist furniture that Magritte designed for his wife as a wedding gift are on display at the museum.

Mesens, Marcel Mariën, Paul Delvaux, Rachel Baes, Jane Graverol and Pierre Sanders.

The second floor presents the historical avant-garde of the 1920s, with major figures including Victor Servranckx, Georges Vantongerloo, Jozef Peeters and Pierre-Louis Flouquet.