Horta Museum
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
| Location | Saint-Gilles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
| Coordinates | 50°49′27″N 4°21′17″E / 50.82417°N 4.35472°E |
| Construction started | 1898 |
| Completed | 1901 |
| Client | Victor Horta |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Victor Horta |
| Official name | Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels) |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, ii, iv |
| Designated | 2000 (24th session) |
| Reference no. | 1005 |
| State Party |  Belgium |
| Region | Europe and North America |
The Horta Museum (Template:Lang-fr, Template:Lang-nl) is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta and his time. The museum is housed in Horta's former house and workshop, Maison & Atelier Horta (1898), in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles.
Housed in the Art Nouveau interiors is a permanent display of furniture, utensils and art objects designed by Horta and his contemporaries as well as documents related to his life and time. The museum also organises temporary exhibitions on topics related to Horta and his art.
The building is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the major town houses of Victor Horta in Brussels.[1]
Awards
The UNESCO commission recognised the Horta Museum as UNESCO World Heritage in 2000, as part of the listing 'Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta':
The four major town houses—Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta—located in Brussels and designed by the architect Victor Horta, one of the earliest initiators of Art Nouveau, are some of the most remarkable pioneering works of architecture of the end of the 19th century. The stylistic revolution represented by these works is characterised by their open plan, the diffusion of light, and the brilliant joining of the curved lines of decoration with the structure of the building.[1]
An extensive restoration project was completed in 2013. In 2014 it won the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award.[2][3]
Gallery
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Horta's house and workshop in the early 20th century -
The balcony -
Doorbell -
Spiral staircase -
Skylight above stairway -
Closeup of the skylight -
Peacock Chair by Horta from either the Hôtel Tassel or the Castle of La Hulpe -
Table by Horta, probably designed for the 1902 Turin International Exposition
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See also
References
- ^ a b "Major Townhouses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)". UNESCO. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ http://www.europanostra.org/awards/125/
- ^ http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-283_en.htm
Further reading
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1 Listing shared with six other countries, which includes Belgium's Maison Guiette; 2 Listing shared with France; 3 Listing shared with the Netherlands, which includes Belgium's Wortel; 4 Listing shared with France 5 Listing shared with seven other countries, which includes Belgium's Spa; 6 Listing shared with seventeen other countries, which includes Belgium's Sonian Forest. | ||