MAC's Grand Hornu

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(Profile only availible in french - translated by machine)

The Museum of Contemporary Arts (MAC's) located on the former colliery Grand Hornu in the region of Mons Borinage presents itself as an important cultural milestone in the French Community of Belgium. This new space dedicated to contemporary and designed by Pierre Hebbelinck, one of the main players in the architectural revival in the Walloon part of the ongoing conversion of the site launched in the late 80's by the Deputy Permanent Claude Durieux. From the perspective of a policy of acquisitions and international exhibitions, artistic director of the Museum was entrusted to Laurent Busine, project director since 1991. Ambitious in its aim to educate as many contemporary arts, the MAC's profits since its founding support of the Province of Hainaut, owner of the historic site, the Region Wallonne and the European Union. Its location in the middle of a motorway linking France to the Netherlands and Germany in fact a cultural relay of the most accessible.

Place

The former colliery Grand Hornu, chosen in 1991 to host the MAC's, is one of the most beautiful sites of industrial archeology in Europe. Neo-classical architecture refers to the utopian principle of 'working city ideal "as had been imagined in France, Nicolas Ledoux. It was also at one of its rivals, the architect Tournai, Bruno Renard its founder, Captain Henri De Gorge company entrusted the realization of his visionary project. City project including mining industrial complex, a city worker and a residence for directors, the Grand Hornu erected between 1810 and 1830 is with the Salines d'Arc and Senan in France, one of the most impressive evidence of organization work in architecture. Converted into accord with its history and identity of places together several human activities, it has gradually become 90 years from a pole of tourism, culture and science. Alongside the Grand Hornu Images that greets visitors to the site and organizes various events - including exhibitions of applied arts and design - and Technocity institution dedicated to teaching computer science, the MAC's is a natural place .