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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.

18/06/2026

A mother stands before her village, upright, clothed in white, holding her child at arm’s length toward us. The gaze is direct, the posture monumental, somewhere between an ordinary woman and a timeless icon.

Painted in 1935, Mother and Child belongs to the series of archetypal figures that defined Anto Carte’s work after his move to the Brabant countryside: the sower, the shepherd, the mother. Figures stripped of anecdote, carrying something universal.

In Territoires intérieurs, this work is shown alongside Maternity, also by Carte, a quieter, more tender scene, and Maturity (1910) by Gustave van de Woestyne, where a woman lies beneath an apple tree, the female body entwined with nature as an expression of the same vital force.

Territoires intérieurs — Anto Carte & Gustave van de Woestyne

Until 27 September 2026 at Musée & Jardins van Buuren, Brussels.

Anto Carte
Mère et enfant / Moeder en kind / Mother and Child
1935
Oil on panel
99 x 79 cm
Private collection, Brussels

11/06/2026

An invitation to slow down, look, and be drawn in by the garden.

Following the success of this spring’s workshop, the museum is hosting a second drawing afternoon in the heart of the gardens.

No expertise needed, just a willingness to observe and let the surroundings inspire.

Led by scenographer Thibaut De Coster, whose practice has long given life to empty spaces through light, shadow, and texture, the workshop offers a rare chance to experience the gardens through a different lens.

Bring whatever materials you love to work with. In case of rain, the session moves indoors.

Language: French

Sunday 28 June · 1:30-4pm · €25

Museum entry included

More information ➡️ urlr.me/tecHMj

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Une invitation à ralentir, observer, et laisser le jardin guider le geste.

Après le succès de l’édition d’avril, le musée propose un second atelier de dessin en plein air. Formes, lumières, matières : chacun·e est invité·e à traduire ce qu’il voit à sa manière, sans contrainte ni prérequis.

L’atelier est animé par Thibaut De Coster, scénographe dont le travail explore depuis des années la lumière, l’ombre et la matière avec une grande sensibilité. Une occasion rare de vivre les jardins autrement.

Participants sont invités à apporter leur matériel de prédilection — crayons, stylos, aquarelle ou tout autre médium. En cas de pluie, l’atelier se tient à l’intérieur.

Langue : français.

Dimanche 28 juin · 13h30–16h · 25€/participant
Entrée au musée incluse

Plus d’informations ➡️ urlr.me/tecHMj

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Een namiddag tekenen in het hart van de tuin…

Na het succes van de vorige editie organiseert het museum een tweede tekenatelier. Neem de tijd om te kijken, te ademen en je te laten verrassen door wat de tuin je aanreikt.

Begeleider Thibaut De Coster is scenograaf en werkt al jaren met licht, schaduw en materie om lege ruimtes tot leven te brengen. Een bijzondere gids voor een bijzondere namiddag.

Breng je favoriete materiaal mee. Bij regen gaat het atelier door binnen.

Zondag 28 juni · 13u30–16u · €25
Taal: Frans
Toegang tot het museum inbegrepen

Meer informatie ➡️ urlr.me/tecHMj

09/06/2026

Different light, different perspective, the same quiet grace.

Female n**e, Created by Jan and Joël Martel for the 1931 Union of Modern Artists exhibition in Paris.

In this room, in this light, she seems less like an object on display than a presence that has always belonged here.

07/06/2026

The van Buuren house was built between 1924 and 1928 by architects Léon Govaerts and Alexis Van Vaerenbergh, but the story begins earlier, and closer to home. David van Buuren drew the plans himself. The architects brought them to life.The building was, from the start, an extension of its owner’s vision.

The house belongs to the tradition of the Amsterdam School, a Dutch architectural movement of the early twentieth century characterised by expressive brickwork, steep rooflines, and an ambition to create not just buildings but total environments.

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/

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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