During the end-of-year festive season, LAB·AN has a few surprises in store for you - check them out now!
LAB·AN, which stands for Laboratoire Art Nouveau, was founded by Urban and its partners as part of the activities for the Art Nouveau Year 2023. It is a museum and an interpretation centre designed to promote Belgium’s Art Nouveau heritage locally, nationally and internationally, by offering a contemporary take on this heritage and the themes it encompasses.
LAB·AN is located in the extension of the Hôtel van Eetvelde, one of the finest creations of the famous Belgian architect Victor Horta. You can visit it all year round, three days a week: on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays.
Unprecedented opening of the upper floors of the Hôtel van Eetvelde
→ on 21, 22, 23 and 28, 29, 30 December
For the end-of-year festive season, LAB·AN is exceptionally offering you access to several previously unseen and private rooms in the town house, which are usually closed to the public.
Seize this unique opportunity to discover the upper floor overlooking the Winter Garden, the incredible dome that underwent a major restoration in 2023, the first office of the man this town house was built for - Edmond van Eetvelde - an many more surprises: take your chance and visit the premises during the last two weekends of the year.
Exhibition “Jean Delhaye, architect[e]!”
→ Until 15 February 2025
Why are we honouring a modernist architect in this new exhibition? After studying at the Académie des Beaux-Arts (fine arts college) in Brussels, Jean Delhaye worked at Victor Horta’s architectural firm. From the 1960s onwards, he led a true crusade to defend the work of the Art Nouveau architect against his critics. In 1937, his parents bought the building adjoining the Hôtel van Eetvelde - which is now the headquarters of LAB·AN - and twenty years later, Delhaye worked on the building to install his office in it and live there with his family. As a tireless campaigner, he now occupies a unique place among the defenders of Victor Horta’s work.
The exhibition “Jean Delhaye, architect[e]!” was conceived by ARCHistory, in cooperation with the municipality of Ganshoren, and with the support of Urban and the Service de la Culture française.
→ Find out more about the exhibition
LAB·AN x Hôtel van Eetvelde are on the museumPASSmusées
LAB·AN x Hôtel van Eetvelde were already on the Art Nouveau Pass, and now they are also part of the museumPASSmusées.
This pass is valid for one year and gives you free access to the Hôtel van Eetvelde, where you can enjoy the many temporary exhibitions throughout the year. With this pass, you can also visit more than 235 Belgian museums over the course of an entire year. Whenever you like and as often as you like!
→ Find out more about the museumPASSmusées
Four exhibitions and installations to discover or rediscover
And there is more! Urban also invites you to take advantage of the end-of-year festive season to (re)discover the rest of the LAB·AN x Hôtel van Eetvelde programme:
- Exhibition “Stoclet 1911 Restitution” → until 31/12/2024
- Exhibition “A Sore Calamity” → until 31/12/2024
- Installation “IN THE WIND BLOW THEIR STORIES”
- Immersive experience “Ups & Downs” + “Aubecq: Fragments”
