Horta Museum

The Horta Museum (French: Musée Horta, Dutch: Hortamuseum) 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.

Horta Museum
Musée Horta  (French)
Hortamuseum  (Dutch)
General information
Architectural styleArt Nouveau
LocationSaint-Gilles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates50°49′27″N 4°21′17″E
Construction started1898
Completed1901
ClientVictor Horta
Design and construction
ArchitectVictor Horta
Official nameMajor Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
TypeCultural
Criteriai, ii, iv
Designated2000 (24th session)
Reference no.1005
State Party Belgium
RegionEurope and North America

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]

  • 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

See also

References
  1. "Major Townhouses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)". UNESCO. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  2. http://www.europanostra.org/awards/125/
  3. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-283_en.htm

Further reading
  • Aubry, Françoise (2001). The Horta Museum, Saint-Gilles, Brussels. Gent: Ludion. OCLC 50212858.
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