Musée de Mariemont

The estate's heritage

An open-air museum

Visit the Domain & Royal Museum of Mariemont

Map of Mariemont estate

Art works

1. Ornamental vases – 19th c.
2. Buddha statue – 1910
3. Statue of Avalokiteshvara – 16 th/17 th c .
4. Vers la vie [Towards Life], Victor Rousseau – 1911
5. The Burghers of Calais, Auguste Rodin – 1906
6. L’Abondance [The Abundance], Jef Lambeaux– 1902
7. Fontaine archiducale [Archducal Fountain], Laurent Delvaux – 1741
8. Fontaine Sainte-Thérèse [Saint Theresa Fountain] – 1766
9. Le Semeur [The Sower], Constantin Meunier – 1914
10. Gate from Neufvilles castle – 2nd half of the 19th c.
11. Vase Bacchanale [Bacchanal vase], Godefroid Devreese – 1913
12. Canons français [French cannons] – 1st half of the 18th c.
13. Lions et lionnes couchés [Recumbent Lions and Lionesses], Guill. Geefs – 1re moitié 19e s.
14. Oriental bronze vase – early 20th c.
15. Lion Fountain from the Alhambra in Granada – 1910
16. Bell from Notre-Dame chapel in La Hestre – 1698
17. La Source [The Spring], Jef Lambeaux – 1901
18. Le Triomphe de la femme [Triumph of the Woman], Jef Lambeaux – 1901
19. Porch from Ghislenghien Abbey – late 18th c.
20. Extraits des Passions humaines [Extracts from The Human Passions], Jef Lambeaux – 1901
21. Marble vase – 1911
22. La Vie [The Life], Michelangelo Circo - 2024

The estate's institutions

A. Royal Museum of Mariemont
B. CRIE (Regional Environment Initiation Centre)
C. École provinciale d’horticulture [Regional School of Horticulture]
D. Service public de Wallonie [Wallonia Public Service]
E. Atelier du Livre de Mariemont
F. Wallonia-Brussels Federation Drama Writing Centre

Historic buildings

G. The kitchen garden (visits can be booked through CRIE)
H. The winter garden – 19 th c.
I. The Warocqué mausoleum – 1923
J. Ruins of Charles of Lorraine’s castle – 18 th c.
K. The horseshoe – 18 th c.
L. The rustic bridge – 1839
M. The Roman bath – late 19 th c.
N. The water tower – mid 19 th c.
O. The pump house – 1868

Botanicals

1. Tree-lined avenue
2. Rose garden
3. Japanese walnut tree – Juglans ailantifolia Carr.
4. Atlas cedar – Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) Manetti ‘Glauca’
5. Sweet chestnut – Castanea sativa Mill.
6. Pubescent oak – Quercus pubescens Willd.
7. English oak – Quercus robur L.
8. Sichuan pepper – Zanthoxylum simulans.
9. European beech – Fagus sylvatica L. purpurea Ait
10. Persian ironwood – Parrotia persica C.A. Mey.
11. Himalayan pine – Pinus wallichiana Jacks.
12. Weymouth pine – Pinus strobus L.
13. Montpellier maple – Acer monspessulanum L.
14. London plane – Platanus acerifolia (Ait.) Willd.
15. Tulip tree – Liriodendron tulipifera L.
16. Tri-colour European beech – Fagus sylvatica L ‘Roseomarginata’
14. Hybrid oak – Quercus x rosacea Bechst
18. Oak-leaved beech – Fagus sylvatica L. ‘Quercifolia’
19. Araucaria – Araucaria araucana K. Koch
20. Cucumber tree – Magnolia acuminata L.
21. Italian alder – Alnus cordata
22. Himalayan cedar – Cedrus deodora
23. Horse chestnut – Aesculus hippocastanum
24. Ginkgo or the Tree of forty crowns – Ginkgo biloba
25. Giant sequoia - Sequoiadendron giganteum
26. Coastal redwood - Sequiadendron semper virens
27. Amour cork tree - Phellodendron amurense
28. Caucasian wingnut - Pterocarya fraxinifolia
29. Hybrid lime - Tilia x orbicularis
30. Lebanese cedar - Cedrus libani
31. Purple sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus
32. Indian bean tree - Catalpa bignonioides