Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage

The personnel of the institute consists of conservator-restorers, historians of art, photographers, chemists, physicists and many other scientists.

The building of the institute, finished in 1963, was the first in the world specially designed to promote the interdisciplinary approach to works of art.

The building was designed by architect Charles Rimanque based on an initial technical concept by René Sneyers.

The institute consists of three departments: In the images database BALaT, each artwork is assigned a record number.

[1] 2023 : The Heart of Heritage, documentary film directed by Nina Degraeve Media related to KIK-IRPA at Wikimedia Commons