Art Museum

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai is an art museum in Tournai, Belgium.

About Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai

The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, Belgium, is an art museum.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Henri Van Cutsem, a Belgian art collector, offered his collection of art to the city of Tournai in 1905. The collection contained important works of important 19th century French painters like Manet, Monet, Seurat and others.

The Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta started drafting a new building that would contain the Van Cutsem donation and other holdings already owned by the city of Tournai but the First World War intervened and construction was delayed. Horta abandoned his first designs made in a typical Art Nouveau style, shifting to the popular art deco style.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai by the numbers

Founded
1928
Visitors / year
28,000

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Artworks shown from Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.