Magritte Museum 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. Magritte Museum The Magritte Museum (, ) is a museum in Brussels, Belgium dedicated to the work of the Belgian surrealist artist, René Magritte. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The Magritte Museum opened to the public on 30 May 2009 in Brussels. Housed in the five-level neo-classical Hotel Altenloh,
Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase as being very similar to the lost Suermondt Museum piece. It has now been purchased back and returned to the museum after 70 years. The museum had earlier recovered "Flowers in a Glass Vase" by Nicolaes Verendael, which had also been sold by Alice Tittel to a New York collector. About 200 paintings from the museum's collection were stolen in 1945. It is unknown how many are still missing. Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase is a circa 1620s floral painting by Balthasar van der Ast in the collection of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum. Balthasar van der Ast