Charlier Museum

Art museum in Brussels, Belgium

50°50′51″N 4°22′11″E / 50.84750°N 4.36972°E / 50.84750; 4.36972TypeArt museumWebsiteOfficial website

The Charlier Museum (French: Musée Charlier; Dutch: Charliermuseum) is a museum in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, exhibiting Belgian art of the end of the 19th century.^[1] The museum is often used for concerts of classical music.^[2]

History

The current museum building was bought by an art collector Henri Van Cutsem in 1890. Van Cutsem hired Victor Horta, a famous architect, to remodel and extend the building. The renovation in Art Nouveau style was completed in 1893. In 1904, Van Cutsem died and left the house to the sculptor Guillaume Charlier. When Charlier died in 1925, his will requested that the house and the collection be opened as a public museum. The museum was opened in 1928.^[3]

References

Citations

^ "Charlier Museum" (in Dutch). Charlier Museum. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
^ "Charlier Museum". Conseil bruxellois des Musées. Archived from the original on 10 July 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
^ Jacobs et al. 2012.

Bibliography

Jacobs, Nathalie; Coerten, Dominique; De Salle, Jean; De Salle, Robin (2012). The Charlier Museum and Victor Horta. Archives d'Architecture Modern. ISBN 978-2-87143-264-7.