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Lab'Expo | Participative space for families all summer long
families childrenCome and have fun and create with your family all summer long at Musée L!
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Fossils & fictions
adults teenagers children familiesImmerse yourself in an exciting journey between the origins of life and its future.
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LAB'Expo: a new space to create with your family this summer!
children familiesThis summer, bring out your inner artist with our LAB'Expo, a participatory creative space designed for visitors of all ages.
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Art & Rite. The power of objects
adults familiesWhat do museum textiles, sculptures, garments, jewellery, masks, amulets, musical instruments, censers and missals tell us? What purpose did they serve before they were uprooted from their original context and put on display? The exhibition juxtaposes artifacts from different cultures and forges connections between objects and people, and between the visitors themselves.
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An Archeological Odyssey: Among Archives and Artefacts
adults families SchoolsThe exhibition goes behind the scenes of archaeology and explores its historiography as a discipline not limited to fieldwork, but drawing on aspects of various other disciplines to create a new way of interpreting the past. The artefacts on display are accompanied by archival documents, recreating the context in which the discipline emerged as a science.
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Tumulus, moutains of eternity
adults families SchoolsFrom prehistoric times to the present day, humans have erected monuments over individual or collective graves : Tumuli. How and for whom was it made? What treasures does it contain ? Delve into the heart of the tumuli an discover the secrets hidden beneath these ancient grassy mounds of earth and skilfully crafted stone structures.
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Images and illustrations from the Japanese Edo period (1603-1868)
adults families SchoolsFeaturing some of the finest works from the magnificent collection of ancient Japanese books in the Rare Books Reserve of UCLouvain the exhibition showcases the art of images and illustrations. Japan donated more than 13,600 books to the Université catholique de Louvain in the 1920s, the oldest dating back to the 13th century. At the time, it was regarded as the most beautiful collection housed outside Japan.
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The Museum of Capitalism at Musée L
adults families SchoolsThe Museum of Capitalism is coming to Louvain-la-Neuve and taking up temporary residence at Musée L ! Questioning our economic and cultural system through capitalism’s origins, hopes, limits and alternatives. Addressing topics such as food, health, culture, consumerism and finance. Provoking debate about complex economic issues that nevertheless structure our lives.
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