The Rahm brothers, owners of several cinemas in Brussels, opened the Roma cinema in 1933, on the site of the former Astoria dance hall, at 65/67 Chaussée de Neerstalle in Forest. In the 1950s, it offered two programs a week in a 500 seats. The cinema closed in 1960, the front of the building was converted into apartments, while the auditorium was used as a workshop. In 2022, Michel Dircken, curator of the Museum of Fantastic Art in Brussels, decided with his team to set up an art center there dedicated to the world of Jules Verne. The Jules Verne Center is a space for exhibitions and entertainment, with the common theme of fantasy, surrealism and the marvellous. In the heart of the capital of Europe, this place dedicated to the imagination will be able to welcome plastic arts, 7th art, literature, meetings and workshops. The tutelary figure of Jules Verne, precursor writer of science fiction and great surveyor of imaginary worlds will permeate the place and its retro-futurist aesthetic.
Centre Jules Verne
Location: Chaussée de Neerstalle, 63 - 67, 1190 Forest
