Musée Hergé
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The walking bridge approach to the Musée Hergé
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 The Musée Hergé's location within Belgium
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| Established | 2 June 2009 |
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| Location | Rue Labrador 26 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
| Coordinates | 50°40′16″N 4°36′46″E / 50.671115°N 4.612809°E |
| Architect | Christian de Portzamparc |
| Website | www |
The Musée Hergé, or Hergé Museum, is a museum in Belgium dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (1907–83), who wrote under the pen name Hergé, creator of the series of comic albums, The Adventures of Tintin.
The museum is located in the town of Louvain-la-Neuve in Wallonia to the south of Brussels at the address, "Rue Labrador 26", Tintin's first home in the books. It was designed by the French architect Christian de Portzamparc, with interiors designed by cartoonist Joost Swarte. The first stone was laid May 2007 during the centenary of Hergé's birth and it opened in June 2009. It consists of three floors with a total of nine exhibition rooms, and a café, museum shop and mini cinema.
Visitors begin at the top floor. The first room is dedicated to Hergé's life. The second room displays Hergé's many interests, his early commercial illustrations, and his early comics. Visitors then cross a long walkway, viewing the lobby on one side and an oak forest outside on the other. The third room introduces the world of Tintin, with nine glass vitrines dedicated to the main characters of the series. The fourth room focuses on Hergé and cinema. Moving down one floor, visitors enter the largest room in the museum, devoted to places in the world Tintin has travelled. Next to this is another large room of Professor Calculus' "laboratory", which focuses on science in the Tintin books. Crossing a lower bridge, visitors learn about Studios Hergé. The final room is called "Hergé Acclaimed", showing Hergé's connections to politicians, artists and philosophers. On the main floor is the space for temporary exhibitions, such as Into Tibet With Tintin. Visitors are offered a three-hour narrated tour of the museum via headphones connected to an iPod. 100,000 visitors arrived during the museum's first year.
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