Have you come to visit the museum? Take your time, there are a large number of rooms to look at, 9 in total, as well as the corridors and overhead passageways. Careful they don't make you dizzy! Yes I know, the walls don't look straight here, it's funny isn't it? But that's what makes the museum original! All this, it's my work, my life! So Hergé, he's a bit like a father. He was not only the person who drew so many heroes, not only Tintin and Snowy, he was also an illustrator, publicist, artistic director and a fan of modern art. I'm starting to know him well, but I still discover something new about him every time the story boards or temporary exhibitions are changed. Did you know that the Hergé Museum is the largest one in Europe devoted to a single comic book artist? So come on in and find out everything there is to know about this great man!
Le Musée Hergé s'associe désormais à la gratuité du premier dimanche de chaque mois, dès le mois de mars 2013. Pour marquer l'évènement des visites guidées gratuites sont organisées le dimanche 3 mars.
Date created
Opened in 2009.
Architect
Christian de Portzamparc.
Project Manager
La Croix de l'Aigle SA avec Fanny and Nick Rodwell, Robert Vangénéberg and InCa.
Function
Permanent and temporary exhibition space on Hergé and his characters, restaurant and shop.
Characteristics
- Surface area 3600 m².
- 8 permanent exhibition rooms and one temporary exhibition room.
- Architecture inspired by the “ligne claire”, or “clear line” style pioneered by Hergé:
- Oblique structural parts.
- Only a few right-angles.
- Interior coloured in pastel shades.
- Large bay windows.
- Set of overhead gangways and stairs for moving from one room to another.
- Museum design by Joost Swarte.
- Stage setting by Winston Spriet and Evelyne Gilmont.
- Museum curator : Sophie Tchang.
To begin with
- Project which goes back to the 1970s.
- Dream of Fanny Rodwell, Hergé's second wife.
- A letter from a local Tintin fan (and future mayor) invited Fanny Rodwell to build her museum in Louvain-la-Neuve.
To see
- Drawings, original art work and watercolours.
- ilm extracts and videos.
- Photo archive.
- Objects and models.
The hidden side
A restaurant decorated with covers from "Le Petit Vingtième" weekly supplement.
The little extra
The Brabant landscape inspired Hergé in the illustration of several comic books. He liked it so much that he bought a small farmhouse in Céroux-Mousty in 1949 and went to live there in 1953.
Practical information
Open from Tuesday to Friday from 10.30 am to 5.30 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm. Closed on Mondays, on the 1st January and on 25th December.
www.museeherge.com
