A new museum of modern and contemporary art is to open in the Citroën building in Brussels in 2017.

As revealed by daily publication L’Echo, the Brussels region has come to an agreement with car manufacturer PSA-Peugeot Citroën in order to gain access to the building — a space of as much as 16,000m² — as a site for the new museum, situated on Place de l’Yser.

The Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital region, Rudi Vervoort, explains that the canal zone was chosen in order to “unite the two sides of Brussels”, adding: “It is a very strong symbol which demonstrates our interest in developing the zone.”