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The Jules Destrée Museum : a citizen
museum
The Jules Destrée Museum is located in the attic of the Town
Hall , symbolic place for several reasons : place of democracy
and citizenship.
While making out the 19th and the 20th Centuries, we invite you
to discover the life of a public character, of a multiple person.
Jules Destrée (1863-1936) is an aesthete, an art critic guided
by the love of beauty, a militant of cultural democracy, recurrent
theme of his path.
Humanist by word and action, intellectual curious
of everything, he crosses his time appealing thinking about society
problems, about ethic questions in the field of justice, democracy
and citizenship.
We suggest, in the Museum, an approach
of this interesting man, characterized by a rather original eclecticism,
around his key engagements : the Origins,
the literary Starts, the
Aesthete, Jules Destrée and Justice,
the Socialist Pedagogue, the
Deputy of Wallonia, the Diplomat,
The Minister of Sciences and Art.
The finality of the Museum is based
upon a clear and precise concept : to know our past, to observe
the present, to better grasp the future in a critical and constructive
way.
Modernity and universality are two concepts that dynamize
our project of listening, sharing and exchanging.
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