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Musée royal de Mariemont

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Musée royal de Mariemont
View of the museum's main building
Musée royal de Mariemont is located in Belgium
Musée royal de Mariemont
Location within Belgium
LocationChaussée de Mariemont 100
B-7140 Morlanwelz, Belgium
Coordinates50°28′04″N 4°13′58″E / 50.467739°N 4.232756°E / 50.467739; 4.232756
Websitewww.musee-mariemont.be

The Royal Museum of Mariemont (French: Musée royal de Mariemont) is a museum situated in Mariemont, near Morlanwelz, in Belgium. It is constituted around the personal collection of art and antiquities owned by the industrialist Raoul Warocqué (1870–1917), which were bequeathed to the Belgian state on his death.

Museum and collection

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The museum displays a notable collection of Tournai porcelain and books, as well as antiquities from Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Judaism and the Christian Near East,[1] and the Far East. In 2012, the museum was expanded by a bequest of Pre-Columbian art from the collection of Yves and Yolande Boël. Artefacts from archaeological excavations in the Province of Hainaut are also displayed.

The original Château Warocqué, in which the museum was housed, was destroyed by fire in 1960. The current museum is housed in a building designed by the architect Roger Bastin, which was opened in 1975.

References

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  1. ^ Quertinmont, Arnaud (1 December 2012). "Une scénographie de la Chrétienté et de l'Islam" [A scenography of Christianity and Islam] (in French). Morlanwelz: Musée royal de Mariemont. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
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