23.06.18 - 6.01.19 - China. Travel Notebooks
Through the eyes of various characters such as merchants, Jesuits or industrialists, the exhibition will return to the discovery of the Middle Kingdom by Westerners from the 16th to the 20th century.
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Whether you are a school, a family, a group, a company or quite simply a curious, the Mundaneum offers you many ways to discover it. We wish you a pleasant visit!
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Helps us preserving and promoting our heritage
The Mundaneum is a non-profit you can help in Belgium and from abroad
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Exchange space in the heart of the city
The Mundaneum is a place for debate of ideas in the city. For reasons of parentage, it intends to question the current and future access to knowledge. Regular exhibitions, lectures and debates, seminars and various events are proposed to a large audience in that context.
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Le Mundaneum dans le New-York Times: 10 ans déjà!
Au printemps 2008, un journaliste bibliothécaire de formation dénommé Alex Wright pousse la porte du Mundaneum. Il en résultera le 17 juin 2008 une double page dans le New-York Times : « Le Mundaneum, le web oublié par le temps » ! Retour sur l'événement en images ...CalendarSee full calendar
The Mundaneum was created in Brussels (capital of Europe, Belgium) at the beginning of the 20th century by Paul Otlet and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henri La Fontaine. It used to be an international documentation Centre aimed at gathering, indexing and sharing the universal knowledge. Today the Mundaneum is a non-profit organization situated in the heart of Mons, 2015 European Capital of Culture. The Mundaneum offers original exhibits aiming to show the vast collections of its archive Centre. The themes of the exhibitions resonate with the great themes of the institution since its creation (knowledge, peace, citizenship, democracy…), and fall into a constant dialogue between history and perspective. Place for debates, each of the Mundaneum’s exhibitions is supported by a cycle of thematic activities including conferences and colloquiums. All the exhibitions proposed by the Mundaneum are subject to a significant pedagogical mediation. With an aim of accessibility, the Mundaneum opens its doors free of charge every first Wednesday of the month during the exhibition period and adheres to the Belgian “Article 27” network.
