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Van Buuren Museum

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Van Buuren Museum

http://museumvanbuuren.be The Van Buuren Museum is a unique, unusual and magical place located in Brussels, Belgium.

Built in 1928, the house of banker and arts patron David van Buuren has an exterior typical of the Amsterdam School. The interior, a tour de force of Art Deco, represents a unique ensemble brought together by renowned decorators from Belgium, France and the Netherlands. The rare furniture, carpets, stained glass, sculpture and paintings by Belgian and international masters from the 16th to the 20t

h century have remained in their original places, giving this museum the intimate character of a private home. The gardens are a masterpiece of landscaping in themselves. At the end of the 1920s, Jules Buyssens conceived the Regular Garden, the Picturesque Garden and the Large Rose Garden in the spirit of Art Deco. In the 1960s, René Pechère created the Labyrinth and the Heart Garden. Thanks to Alice van Buuren, this park is a splendid a place to stroll, reflect and dream.

03/06/2026

The van Buuren house has not been touched.

Not reorganised, not reinterpreted. Conceived as a work of art in its own right, it has remained entirely unchanged through the decades. The furniture is where David and Alice placed it. The light falls as they intended.

David van Buuren believed in the concept of a total work of art, rooms were designed around objects in order to showcase them. This was not collecting as accumulation. It was a way of living inside art.

That vision is fully documented and open to all. The collection was the subject of specific photographic campaigns carried out by the Royal Institute for Artistic Heritage, at the initiative of .brussels, in 2016 and 2021. Each object, painting, sculpture, carpet, piece of furniture, decorative bronze, has been catalogued, photographed, and made accessible online through the Brussels heritage inventory at https://collections.heritage.brussels/index.php?section=objects&lg=fr&institution=2&page=0

Centuries of art, one house, one click away.

28/05/2026

VESTALIA – EXCLUSIVE VISIT

As part of the Vestalia festival, the Musée & Jardins van Buuren is hosting an exclusive guided visit.
Over the course of an hour, you will discover the backstory of a place quite unlike any other. How does one preserve a house-museum whose furniture, carpets, stained glass and paintings form an indivisible whole? What choices lie behind a restoration, an arrangement?

The visit then continues into the gardens — an opportunity to trace their history from Jules Buyssens to René Pechère, and to explore the questions their upkeep raises today.

Date: Friday 13 June
Time: 11am
Price: €25/participant

In French
By reservation – limited places
https://ticketing.museumvanbuuren.be/event/visite-guidee-exclusive-dans-le-cadre-de-vestalia-3/register?_kx=2Lti4wP5rmGogqJZiqZCh4LvUoaI_6l8lMZY8Xx5n4E.VyVqG5

26/05/2026

Gesamtkunstwerk, the German notion of the total work of art, holds that architecture, furniture, painting, sculpture and decorative arts should not coexist, but converge.

The term refers to circumstances where every element of a building, from its shell to its accessories, furnishings and landscape, is designed to form a unified whole.

It is an idea that runs through Art Nouveau, Art Deco and the Bauhaus, but rarely finds such complete expression as it does here.

The van Buuren house was conceived as a Gesamtkunstwerk, where architecture, furniture and works of art exist in dialogue within a richly decorated Art Deco interior. Nothing was an afterthought. Every room is a conversation between objects, each one chosen with the same conviction.

To walk through the house is to understand what it means to live inside a work of art.

Opening hours:
Monday: 2:00–5:30 PM
Tuesday: closed
Wednesday–Friday: 2:00–5:30 PM
Saturday: 1:00–5:30 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM–5:30 PM

Advance booking is required to guarantee your entry.
Book your visit via the link in bio.

22/05/2026

Territoires intérieurs - 22 May to 27 September 2026

Discover our new exhibition

Around twenty works. Two visions. One shared inner territory.

Territoires intérieurs brings into dialogue Gustave van de Woestyne and Anto Carte, two major figures of 20th-century Belgian art that art history had long kept apart. One rooted in the Flemish symbolism of Laethem-Saint-Martin, the other in the Walloon expressionist tradition of the Nervia group. That separation had its reasons. This exhibition sets out to move beyond it.

What unites them is real and deep: both turned away from the city to immerse themselves in the countryside, both drew consciously from the Flemish and Italian Primitives, and both saw in the simple gestures of rural life, the sower, the shepherd, the mother and child, a universal and sacred dimension. At the heart of their work, one motif returns: the enclosed garden, the hortus conclusus, a protected space where something precious is kept sheltered from the world.

Van de Woestyne elevates. Carte grounds. Together, they say something complete.

Territoires intérieurs
Gustave van de Woestyne & Anto Carte
📍 Musée & Jardins van Buuren, Avenue Leo Errera 41, 1180 Brussels
🗓 22 May to 27 September 2026

20/05/2026

YOUR PRIVATE EVENTS, IN THE VAN BUUREN GARDENS

Some venues set the tone before the first guest arrives. Until mid-July, the van Buuren Gardens can be privatised, with a 240 m² pavilion, up to 300 guests. Receptions, cocktail dinners, corporate events. Link in bio.
https://www.museumvanbuuren.be/en/privatise/

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VOS ÉVÉNEMENTS PRIVÉS, DANS LES JARDINS VAN BUUREN

Certains lieux donnent le ton avant même l’arrivée des premiers invités. Jusqu’à mi-juillet, les Jardins van Buuren peuvent être privatisés, avec un pavillon de 240 m², jusqu’à 300 convives. Réceptions, cocktails dînatoires, événements d’entreprise. Lien dans notre bio.
https://www.museumvanbuuren.be/fr/privatiser/

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UW PRIVÉ-EVENEMENTEN, IN DE VAN BUUREN TUINEN

Sommige locaties bepalen de sfeer nog voor de eerste gast arriveert. Tot half juli kunnen de van Buuren Tuinen worden geprivatiseerd, met een paviljoen van 240 m², tot 300 gasten. Recepties, walking dinners, bedrijfsevenementen. Link in bio.
https://www.museumvanbuuren.be/nl/privatiseren/

16/05/2026

Portrait of Alice Piette van Buuren
Joël Martel, c. 1930

David and Alice van Buuren were not passive collectors. They moved through the art world of their time with genuine curiosity, attending exhibitions, building relationships with artists, commissioning work for their home.

It was most likely at the landmark 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs that they first encountered the Martel twins, the French sculptor duo whose geometric yet intimate style would become one of the defining signatures of Art Deco.

13/05/2026

Two masters, Jules Buyssens and René Pechère, shaped what is now a landmark of European landscape art: 1.2 hectares, six distinct spaces, classified as a historic garden by the Council of Europe and honoured with the Europa Nostra prize.

But a classified garden does not keep itself. What visitors walk through today, the precision of the hedgerows, the succession of blooms from the first spring roses to the last autumn light, the living architecture of boxwood that Pechère used as structural elements, is the result of year-round, expert work. Pruning, planting, protecting against frost, reading the seasons, anticipating them.

For this reason, we would like to thank our gardening team, Estate and Landscape management , for their precious work and their dedication to a living heritage.

08/05/2026

Maternité
George Minne (1866-1941)
bronze

A Symbolist sculptor from Ghent, Georges Minne holds a singular place in the van Buuren collection, he is one of the artists most deeply woven into the fabric of the house.

David and Alice van Buuren’s attachment to his work went as far as the architecture itself: the main staircase was designed around the kneeling figure, « L’agenouillé », which stands at its base.

Minne’s sculpture is a world of introversion and restraint, fragile figures, bowed heads, gestures turned inward.

During the First World War, as three of his sons were mobilised, he set down his tools entirely and turned to drawing. The mother-and-child theme became, in those years of absence and anxiety, his private symbol of peace. After 1919, it returned to his sculpture with quiet persistence.

« Maternité » belongs to that intimate current. Cast in bronze, signed, it carries the same economy of form that defines all of Minne’s work, nothing superfluous, nothing declared. Just the weight of a held body, and the stillness that comes with it.

06/05/2026

Did you know that our gardens are the first in Belgium to be listed on the European Route of Historic Gardens?

Recognised in 2023 following a rigorous scientific selection process, this international distinction, awarded by the Council of Europe, acknowledges their exceptional historical, artistic and landscape value.

Designed in the 1920s by Jules Buyssens and enriched in the 1960s by René Pechère, the gardens are the perfect complement to a visit of the house-museum. Six distinct spaces to discover, in every season.

- Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri: 2–5.30 PM | Sat: 1–5.30 PM | Sun: 10 AM–5.30 PM

- Av. Léo Errera 41, 1180 Uccle

Booking via the link in bio.

Adres

Avenue Léo Errera 41
Brussels
1180

Openingstijden

Maandag	14:00 - 17:30
Woensdag	14:00 - 17:30
Donderdag	14:00 - 17:30
Vrijdag	14:00 - 17:30
Zaterdag	14:00 - 17:30
Zondag	14:00 - 17:30

Telefoon

0032 (0)2 343 48 51

Website

http://museumvanbuuren.be/

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