 In 1835, with the intention of giving the independence of the young Belgian State an historical perspective, a ("Museum of Antique Weapons, Armour, Object of Art and Numismatics") was established, headed by Count Amédée de Beauffort.The collections were moved to the "Palais de l’Industrie", the left wing of the present Royal Museums of Fine Art.Subsequently named the ("Royal Museum of Armour, Antiquities and Ethnology"), the institution transferred its collections to the recently restored Halle Gate, a surviving gate of the old city wall ringing Brussels.