The Map of Utopia, made by Abraham Ortelius and acquired thanks to the Charles Vreeken Fund, has been listed among the ‘Topstukken’ (masterpieces) in Flanders. This visual representation of Thomas More’s Utopia, dates from the end of the 16th century and has been entrusted to the Plantin-Moretus Museum.
Perle fine (Fine Pearl) by Oscar Jespers, one of the earliest masterpieces of Modernist sculpture in Belgium, is currently on show at the Musée L in Louvain-la-Neuve.
A number of Coptic textiles from the Fill-Trevisol Collection have joined the Musée L for a brand new exhibition that immerses us in the history of archaeology through the notebooks of two leading archaeologists.
