Hergé Museum

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium · 2010

Museum entrance with a large Hergé drawing on its white volume — Image: EmDee, CC BY-SA 4.0

Louvain-la-Neuve is built on a straight-edged concrete slab.

Type: Commission
Status: Built
Completed: 2010
Client: Fanny and Nick Rodwell, Studios Hergé
Scale: 3,500 m²
Program: Museum dedicated to Hergé with permanent and temporary exhibitions, a projection room, cafeteria, shops, studios, storage and offices
Architect: Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, AND Studio, collaboration

About

The museum steps away from it, towards the woods, and takes in the light through large bays.

Inside, visitors meet four landscape objects that frame Joost Swarte's scenography. Each has its own form and colour, an aspect of Hergé's drawing enlarged into architecture; a fifth, the white and blue lift shaft, rises between them.