Erasmus Museum, Brussels

In Brussels, I first took care to create a philosophical garden to welcome a new public and to create a research center to enhance the collection of old books. It was important that in Erasmus House, one could study, publish, and learn Latin. Having achieved this, I renewed the museography. I developed a policy of temporary exhibitions and a series of events that made it possible to reach a public that did not naturally come to the museum.

The museum is part of the municipal museums of Anderlecht (one of the 19 municipalities of Brussels). I was responsible there for the Erasmus and Beguinage Museum (founded in 1252). Buildings from the 15th, 16th, and 18th centuries inhabit these two museums.

The Erasmus Museum preserves collections of paintings and sculptures from the 15th and 16th centuries, one of the most important collections of 16th-century editions of the humanist. A surrounding wall encloses the 15th and 16th-century buildings, as well as the medieval-inspired garden laid out by René Pechère and the philosophical garden laid out by Benoît Fondu.