Hergé Museum
A museum established in 2009 in Louvain-La-Neuve, dedicated to the life and work of Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi. This extraordinary comic book author created under the pseudonym Hergé. He gained worldwide fame thanks to the series of comic book albums The Adventures of Tintin. The museum building was designed by the French architect Christian de Portzamparc. The interior was created by cartoonist Joost Swarte. The museum organizes temporary exhibitions and events related to Hergé and comics. Museum Hergé, together with the Brussels-based Comics Museum, presents the extraordinary legacy of the Belgian School of Comics. This is a place not only for children, but also for adults who remember their youthful fascination with this extraordinary form of drawing: comics.
TinTin, the iconic comic book hero
The Hergé Museum is the largest museum in the world dedicated to the comic book author. An extraordinary place where Hergé is presented as an illustrator, type designer, screenwriter, publicist and also as a painter. During his cartooning career, he created comic book characters such as Jo, Zette and Jocko, Quick and Flupke. However, the world remembers him primarily as the creator of the extraordinary Tintin series. The 23 comic book issues featuring the young detective's adventures were translated into numerous languages and sold millions of copies.
The tour was organized on three levels, starting from the highest. Eight exhibition rooms house over eighty original drawings and eight hundred photographs, documents and objects belonging to Hergé. The museum's address is Rue Labrador 26. This number was Tintin's first home in the comic book. The idea of creating a museum dedicated to Hergé It was created during his lifetime in the 1970s. After the cartoonist's death in 1983, his wife, Fanny Vlamynck, led the effort to catalogue and select the works that eventually became part of the exhibition at the new museum.
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Address:
Hergé Museum Rue du Labrador 26 Louvain-la-Neuve |
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday: 10:30-17:30 Saturday-Sunday: 10:30-18:00 |
Fare:
12 euros |