Architectural heritage

Safeguarding and promoting our architectural heritage.

Buildings, estates, churches and castles, to name but some; as part of the collective memory and identity of a place and its inhabitants, our architectural heritage forms part of our daily lives. The King Baudouin Foundation and the Funds it manages rally to save monuments, sites and architectural collections in Belgium and abroad. We are open to owners’ requests and needs and work with a range of people on the ground. The expertise and networks we have developed over the years enable us to react quickly and in a targeted manner.

Our activities

  • we develop and facilitate projects for the restoration of elements of our architectural heritage
  • and we facilitate donor philanthropy.

Architectural heritage is part of the programme Heritage and culture

More information on heritage-kbf.be

Calls for projects

Young Craft Workers - 2023

Selection announced

Grantees

Duisburg Kontor Hallenmanagement GmbH - Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord

Public access to Gasreinigung West, a landscaped park in North Duisburg, Germany.

Continued renovation of the south façade (Phase 3): glass, chassis anticorrosion protection and closure of the ventilation openings in the roof.

Kerkfabriek Onze-Lieve-Vrouw (VL-Antwerpen)

Restoration of the Chapel of Notre Dame de Hagelberg, Berendrecht.

Finding an architect to supervise the repairs needed to the Chapel of Notre Dame of Hagelberg.

Stiftung Zollverein

App Zollverein: Orientation tool for the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ruhr, Germany

Improving the app for visitors to the industrial heritage website in 2022 and facilitating its use, with help from outside service providers.

Funds and philanthropic tools

Domaine historique d'Annevoie

Repair, restore, maintain, improve the quality and perpetuate the Annevoie Historic Estate and its access to the public.

Musée et Jardin Van Buuren (Friends of Fund)

Philanthropists support projects of The Van Buuren Museum and Gardens Foundation designed to ensure the preservation of moveable heritage in the Van Buuren house, now a museum.

Organum Novum (Fonds Organum Novum)

The protection, preservation and promotion of organs that represent organ heritage in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe, with particular attention to those protected by relevant bo…