Musée Gaspar, Arlon

The Gaspar Museum is a museum located in the heart of the Belgian city of Arlon dedicated to the art and history of Arlon and its region.

Located on the edge of a wooded park, this 19th century bourgeois residence was bequeathed to the city of Arlon by Charles Gaspar, a pictorialist photographer, collector, patron and benefactor of the city. Although his will stipulates that the entire house and all the collections go to the city, it includes a condition: to make his house a museum.

From then on, at his death in 1950, Charles bequeathed an immense collection of photographs, paintings, engravings, sculptures, furniture and old books to his native city. In addition, there are the works of Jean Gaspar, his sculptor brother. This prestigious collection is now the Gaspar legacy, the core of the museum's permanent collection.

In addition to this, there are other art collections, gleaned over the years, including the Fisenne altarpiece, a jewel of religious art from the Antwerp workshops of the 16th century and the centerpiece of the collection.

The whole is nestled in a house entirely restored in 2003, and dedicated, since its opening in 2004, to the art and history of Arlon and its region.

The museum lives mainly to the rhythm of temporary exhibitions where the art and history of the Greater Region are presented to the public in a playful way. As a privileged partner of the Academy of Fine Arts of the City of Arlon, the museum proposes every June an ephemeral art exhibition in the Gaspar Park. This is an opportunity for the students of the academy to present the fruit of their artistic research to the walkers and visitors of this urban park.

The museum, one of the actors of the Art & Mus Network, is an "admitted children's museum" and offers various activities to young visitors: young visitor's guide, birthday party at the museum, family workshops...