Belgian Comic Strip Center

Belgian Comic Strip Center
Centre belge de la Bande dessinée/Belgisch Centrum voor het Beeldverhaal
Life-size model of a scene from Hergé's Explorers on the Moon (1954).
Location within Belgium Brussels
Established	October 6, 1989^[1]
Location	Rue des Sables 20 B-1000 Brussels
Coordinates	50°51′04″N 4°21′36″E / 50.851111°N 4.36°E / 50.851111; 4.36
Type	History of Belgian comics
Visitors	More than 200,000 per year^[1]
Public transit access	Brussels-Central
Website	www.comicscenter.net

The Belgian Comic Strip Center (French: Centre belge de la Bande dessinée, Dutch: Belgisch Centrum voor het Beeldverhaal) chronicles the history of Belgian comics. Housed in a former department store in Brussels' business district, it exhibits examples of comic strips in French, Dutch and English.

The full range of comic art is covered, including science fiction, wild west, crime and politics, as well as children's comics such as The Smurfs.

It has several exhibits on Belgium's most famous comic characters Tintin and Snowy and their creator Hergé. The style of the Tintin comics and their history is examined, including life-size models of characters and sets from Tintin's adventures. There is a shop, research library and restaurant on the ground floor of the historic building, which was designed by the Belgian art nouveau architect Victor Horta.