Bibliotheca Wittockiana

The Wittockiana is a public museum and library located in Brussels (Belgium) devoted to the arts of the book and of bookbinding.

Bibliotheca Wittockiana
Location within Brussels
Location23 Rue du Bemel
1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Belgium
Coordinates50.8321798°N 4.4203395°E / 50.8321798; 4.4203395
TypePrivate museum
Websitewittockiana.org/en/
French Renaissance bookbinding with decorative entrelacs (interlacing), made around 1545 by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. Collection King Baudouin Foundation

The museum is based on the personal collection of Michel Wittock, a former entrepreneur and bibliophile, who donated his collection to the King Baudouin Fondation on 2010.[1] The library was opened to the public in 1983. The Wittockiana is supported by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles .[2]

The museum reflects Wittock's interests and focuses on books and bookbindings dating back to the Renaissance to our time. Among others it holds an almost complete collection of the Almanach de Gotha, a collection of appr. 600 precious rattles (the former collection of Idès Cammaert), the archives of Valere Gille, a writer and influent personality in the literary world of the first half of the 20th century (whose office furniture is designed by Paul Hankar) and a part of the personal archive of Lucien Bonaparte.

The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.

See also

References
  1. Duplat, Guy (12 August 2011). Michel Wittock : passion et don. La Libre Belgique. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  2. "Michel Wittock, portrait d'un collectionneur". RTBF. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
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