Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium / Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique
- Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage
- Koninklijk Instituut voor de Bescherming van het Kunstpatrimonium
- KIK
- IRPA
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The IRPA-KIK is a federal scientific institute responsible for the documentation, study and conservation-restoration of the cultural and artistic heritage of our country.
Art historians, photographers, chemists, archaeologists, engineers and conservator-restorers carry out interdisciplinary research on the materials and techniques used in works of art and cultural artefacts and on the materials and methods used in conservation-restoration.
The IRPA-KIK is a unique resource for scientific, photographic and technical documentation of the cultural heritage of the country.
Finding Aids, Guides, and Publication
BALaT database: http://balat.kikirpa.be/
Publications: https://www.kikirpa.be/en/knowledge-sharing?lang=en
Opening Times
The team of the Information Centre welcomes you in the reading room from Tuesday to Friday between 9.30 am and 12.30 pm and between 1.30 pm and 5.30 pm.