René Magritte is the biggest Magritte archive anywhere and most of the work is directly from the collection of the artist's widow, Georgette Magritte, and from Irene Hamoir Scutenaire, who was his primary collector. Additionally, the museum includes Magritte's experiments with photography from 1920 on and the short surrealist films he made from 1956 on. Another museum is located at 135 Rue Esseghem in Brussels in Magritte's former home, where he lived with his wife from 1930 to 1954. A painting, "Olympia" (1948), a nude portrait of Magritte's wife by Magritte, was stolen from this museum on the morning of 24 September
Underwear Museum scared of someone, just imagine them in their underpants. The hierarchy will fall and you will see that this is a guy like any other. We are all equal, all brothers." In 2014 Bruno Waterfield of "The Telegraph" stated that when the museum was in Brussels it was "a well-known drinking spot for Belgium's bohemian far-Left." Robyn Boyle of "The Bulletin" stated that the museum had become a household name in [Brussels]". In 2014 the underwear of Yvan Mayeur was stolen from the museum. In 2015 the lease on the café expired, and at one point the Flemish Community canceled