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Bibliotheca Wittockiana - Museum of Book Bindings and Book Arts
Address:
Rue du Bemel 23
1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Phone: +32 / (0)2 / 770.53.33
Fax: +32 / (0)2 / 762.21.39
E-mail: info@wittockiana.org
Website: http://www.wittockiana.org
Open: Temporary exhibitions; from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm. Permanent collections of bookbindings: only by appointment
Closed: Monday, Sunday and public holidays (1/1, 1/5, 21/5, 21/7, 15/8, 1/11, 11/11,25/12)
Price: 4 €; seniors and students: 2,50 €
Visits: upon reservation at +32 / (0)2 / 770.53.33 (1 guide, 2 hours, max. 20 pers. - 150 EUR)
Services: library - museum shop
Facilities: accessible to disabled persons
Accessibility: Tram 39 44 - Bus 36
Collection: Collection of bookbindings from the 16th to the 21st century.
Description: Founded by Michel Wittock, the Bibliotheca Wittockiana is both a "book museum" because of its permanent collections, and a contemporary architectural "monument". But it is also a "library" and a "precious reserve collection". Its thematic temporary exhibitions illustrate different aspects of bibliophily. The museum possesses remarkable collections of bookbindings from the 16th to the 20th century, and autograph letters of artists and Belgian and French writers of the end of the 19th century. About 500 rattles - from the Idès Cammaert donation - of the second millennium B.C. until today can also be admired.
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