Musée Marguerite-Yourcenar

Over het museum

Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour, whose anagram is Yourcenar, spent her summer holidays at Mont-Noir, where her family owned a château, from 1903 to 1913. In 1977 the schoolteacher Louis Sonneville sent the writer, who was then living in the United States, hyacinth bulbs and soil from the family estate. A long correspondence followed, which led to the idea of a museum.

The municipal museum opened on 29 September 1985, and the writer visited it on 3 May 1986. It is run by the Friends of the Marguerite Yourcenar Museum association, founded in 1986, and staffed by volunteers.

The permanent route has three rooms. The first evokes the writer's childhood through photographs and original documents. The second reconstructs her study at Petite Plaisance in the United States, where she wrote Mémoires d'Hadrien and L'Œuvre au noir. The last recounts her election to the Académie française and her commitment to ecology and animal protection; a documentary features extracts from interviews.

Hoogtepunten

• Photographs and original documents on Marguerite Yourcenar's childhood at Mont-Noir
• Reconstruction of her study at Petite Plaisance
• Room on her election to the Académie française and her ecological commitment
• Documentary based on interviews with the writer

Vaste collectie

• Exposition permanente Marguerite Yourcenar – Three rooms devoted to the writer's childhood, to the reconstruction of her study at Petite Plaisance and to her election to the Académie française.

Opgericht

1985

Beheerder

Commune de Saint-Jans-Cappel ; gestion par l'association des Amis du musée Marguerite Yourcenar

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Free admission for members of the Friends of Marguerite Yourcenar association. The museum's educational offer is listed on the Pass Culture website.

Toegankelijkheid

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Kinderen & gezin

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Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

By car: A25 motorway, exit 11 Meteren.

Service & horeca

• Museumwinkel

A bookshop stocks most of Marguerite Yourcenar's works.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

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