Museum in Motion

From attic room to city museum

There are currently around 53,000 works in M's collection, with everything from tiny coins to gigantic sculptures and paintings. Creating such a collection was not done overnight. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the small 18th-century collection of curiosities in the Leuven Town Hall grew into a proper city museum, which eventually found shelter in the Vander Kelen-Mertens house – the core of M. Even now, the collection is continuously being expanded. This is done in three ways: through purchases, donations and long-term loans.