Trinkhall museum

About the museum

The Trinkhall museum opened its doors on 18 June 2020 and succeeds the MADmusée. It houses a collection unique in the world of works created in workshop settings by artists with intellectual disabilities, cognitive impairments or great psychosocial fragility. More than four thousand pieces — paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures — from all over the world were gathered over some forty years under the banner of the Créahm, the MADmusée and then the Trinkhall.

The Créahm, an association founded in Liège in 1979 by Luc Boulangé, runs creative workshops led by practitioners of visual and performing arts, with an artistic rather than therapeutic approach. During the years of preparation for the new museum (2017-2020), the team rethought the scientific and cultural project: rather than presenting the collection under the label of art brut, the museum places the workshop and the collective creative process at the centre.

The building, designed by the Beguin-Massart office, is covered with an opaline mesh with rounded contours and sits like a lantern in the Avroy park. It offers more than 600 m² of exhibition space, a bookshop-boutique, a documentation centre, a meeting and educational space, and a café-restaurant whose terrace opens onto the park. The permanent exhibition is renewed by themes, such as “Altérités” in 2026-2027.

Highlights

• Collection of more than four thousand works created in workshops
• Thematic permanent exhibition “Altérités” with about twenty artists
• Building with opaline mesh by Beguin-Massart
• Trinkhall Café, a social-integration cooperative, with terrace on the Avroy park
• Shop and prints produced by the museum

Permanent exhibition

• Altérités – Thematic renewal of the permanent exhibition: the works of about twenty artists engage in dialogue around the question of otherness in all its diverse forms.

Founded

2020

Admission & discounts

Free admission: First Sunday of the month: free admission.

Free admission for under-12s, holders of the museumPASSmusées (on sale at reception) and holders of the ICOM card. As part of the PECA, free for pupils in compulsory education and their teachers.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

The museum declares itself accessible to people with reduced mobility.

Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

‘O musée’ engraving workshops for all audiences, with family or friends, with entrance ticket included (€15 per person); workshops on request.

Getting there & parking

By car: motorway E40, exit Avroy. The museum is in the Avroy park.

Amenities & dining

• Café
• Restaurant
• Museum shop

Trinkhall Café, a social-purpose cooperative open every day from 10:00 to 18:00 at the least, with food service from 12:00 to 15:00 and a terrace on the Avroy park. Bookshop and museum shop.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

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