CollectionThe Musée L has the privilege of presenting a fine sample of the scientific heritage of UCLouvain. Some of these collections, initiated in the 19th century, have been used as teaching aids during courses, others are real testimonies of research work.
CollectionThe folk art collections contain just over 14,000 items dating from the 16th to the 20th century. These sometimes unusual pieces reflect the customs, beliefs and expressions current in Europe during this period, and open up exciting fields of research between art history and ethnology.
CollectionThe modern art collections focus on Belgian art in the 20th century. The best represented schools are abstract art of the 1920s and the post-war period, the geometric trends of the second half of the 20th century, and the artists in the tradition of the Cobra group and the new figurative art.
CollectionThe cast collection was begun in 1864 and has more than 1,000 items. It covers the major periods in the history of art from antiquity to the 20th century.
CollectionThe collections from Antiquity contain some 2,000 items, mainly from the Mediterranean region. Some of these are notable for their aesthetic appeal and excellent state of conservation, while other more fragmentary items are of value for the light they throw on a particular technical process.
CollectionThe print collections contain about 2,500 items covering the entire history of prints from the 15th century to the present day.
CollectionThe museum has nearly 2,000 pieces from Africa, Asia, America and Oceania. African art is best represented by an old University collection assembled in the early 20th century in the context of Belgian colonial activity, and then divided with KULeuven in 1968.
CollectionThis collection includes almost 2,000 works: sculptures, paintings and decorative items representative of European art from the 14th to the 19th century, including a remarkable series of works dating from the late Gothic period and early Renaissance.
