The Cluny Museum, only a few minutes away from our lodges, has simply opened its second exhibition of the spring – Merveilleux Trésor d’Oignies : Éclats du 13e siècle (Marvellous Treasures of Oignies: thirteenth century radiance), with a rare assortment of gold and silverware that has by no means been seen earlier than exterior of Belgium.
The treasures of Hugo d’Oignies are so particular, they’re recognised as one of many seven marvels of Belgium!
This uncommon assortment courting from the thirteenth century was truly given to the King Baudouin Basis solely lately (in 2010) by the Sisters of Notre-Dame de Namur who had been its guardians for almost 200 years.
Now, virtually your complete assortment, often on present on the Musée provincial des Arts anciens du Namurois, has left Belgium for the primary ever time – beforehand, solely three items had been proven on the Louvre, and that was 100 years in the past!
You’ll be capable to see round thirty items (the one ones that may ‘journey’, taken from the fifty or so items of the gathering), largely reliquaries but additionally a choice of materials.
The exhibition can also be your likelihood to be taught extra concerning the strategies concerned in creating gold and silverware, and the historical past of the priory of Saint-Nicolas d’Oignies, a neighborhood of Augustinian canons based within the twelfth century.
Linked with the exhibition there are:
— three conferences in French on twenty first March, 4th April and twenty third Could, with catchy names like “Marie d’Oignies ou la quête éperdue du Salut. Vie religieuse, mysticisme et premières béguines dans le Pays de Liège au début du XIIIe siècle“
— workshops for youths on sure Saturdays and Sundays, and
— a gallery of images of the gathering obtainable in excessive definition, along with explanations about every merchandise.
A listing of the exhibition (96 pages) can also be obtainable for round 22€ right here at your native Amazon.
The exhibition Merveilleux Trésor d’Oignies : Éclats du 13e siècle is on the Cluny Museum (right here) till twentieth October 2024
Open each day besides Mondays from 9.30am-6.15pm (final ticket at 5.30pm)
Late evening opening each first and third Thursday of the month from 6.15-9pm (final ticket 8.30pm) on the particular fee of 10€
Admission: 12€ / 10€
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