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Temporary closure of the Museum

Storm warning: the Estate & Royal Museum of Mariemont will be closed to the public on Saturday, 4 October 2025.

The Museum is temporarily closed to the public until 21 November 2025 inclusive as the frames are replaced. 

The study library is accessible by appointment.

Find out more on our page devoted to this major project.

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Project « Face to Face: The People Behind the Mummy Portraits »

Launched at the initiative of the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, the project brings together the Royal Museum of Mariemont, the Museum August Kestner in Hanover, the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim and the Sammlung des Ägyptologisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg.

Its aim is to study twelve mummy portraits (also known as ‘Fayum Portraits’) using the latest broadband spectral imaging techniques, and to provide researchers with data that will enable them to better understand how these objects were made and what life(s) they sometimes had on the antiquities market.

The programme began in March 2023 and was promoted as part of an exhibition of the same name, which opened in Amsterdam on 6 October 2023. In the short term, the data will be integrated into the database of the APPEAR project (‘Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research’) managed by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Research projects:

Identities, representations and forms of expression

Researchers

Page de Nicolas Amoroso Nicolas Amoroso Page de Arnaud Quertinmont Arnaud Quertinmont

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Reconstructing the villa of Boscoreale (Pompeii)

À la fin du 19e siècle, des propriétaires de terres agricoles explorent le sous-sol de Boscoreale, une petite localité située au nord de Pompéi, dans l’espoir de découvrir des trésors archéologiques enfouis sous les cendres du Vésuve.

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The New Faces of Egyptian Gods: Isis and her Circle

Sous l’influence grecque, puis romaine, la déesse Isis se métamorphose et revêt une multitude d’apparences, au sein d’une famille divine recomposée (Sarapis, Harpocrate, Anubis, etc.).

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The Roman Cult of Mithras

This research programme is investigating the Cult of Mithras, a mysterious god from the East who was the subject of a very unusual and extremely popular cult in the Roman Empire.

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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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