Project « From archive to object: a history of the Mariemont collections »

The Royal Museum of Mariemont has quite exceptional archives we can use to study the history of Mariemont from the arrival of the Warocqué family in the early 19th century onwards. Letters and invoices from Raoul Warocqué’s time (1870-1917) are particularly useful in providing an understanding of the circumstances surrounding the acquisitions and thus explaining the provenance of many pieces in the Mariemont collections.

The archives produced by the public institution since 1920 also tell us about the life of the works (their acquisition, analysis, display). We are currently studying this immensely useful documentary resource for the benefit of all the Mariemont departments.

Research projects:

Provenance and cultural biography of the objects

Researchers

Gilles Docquier

Richard Veymiers

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Coal, gold and silver: Raoul Warocqué’s coin and medal collection

Very little is currently known by specialists or the general public about the majority of Mariemont’s coins and medals. And yet these numismatic collections are immense and varied, spanning the East and West and from Antiquity to the early 20th century.

The Great Century of Burgundian Rule: a challenge for Belgian history?

Over the last few years, through exhibitions, popular publications and quality television productions, the general public has been showing a renewed interest in the Burgundian era which lasted from the mid-14th to the mid-16th century.

Place of Leisure, Place of Power: The Origins of Mariemont under Mary of Hungary

L’implantation, la construction et l’aménagement paysager d’un pavillon de chasse en lisière des bois de Morlanwelz pour le compte de Marie de Hongrie, gouvernante générale des anciens Pays-Bas durant le règne de Charles Quint, est un phénomène étudié.

Scientific team

The research carried out at Mariemont is organised around 8 thematic areas which reflect the specific features of the scientific work carried out in the museum sector.

There are around thirty collaborative research projects in which members of the Mariemont scientific team are involved.

The results of this research are made available to the scientific community and are the subject of ongoing accessibility work to ensure that they are passed on to the public.

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