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.