Presentation
In the unique setting of a former newspaper office, the Marc Sleen Museum offers a view on the many facets of the exceptional work of an outstanding artist. The standing exhibition includes several exhibitions about the life and works of Marc Sleen. Even if Nibbs is Sleen’s uncontested success series, less known comics like Oktaaf Keunink, De Lustige Kapoentjes and Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke are also treated in detail. In conclusion three themes of his work are elaborated: safari, political cartoons and Tour de France.
In a reading corner visitors cannot only get acquainted with the comics of Marc Sleen in several languages, they can consult secondary literature as well.
The Foundation also keeps an archive of more than 15.000 original drawings of Marc Sleen. Througout the year a selection of these originals is presented in the Gallery of the Marc Sleen Museum.
All museum texts are in Dutch, French and English.
News
Marc Sleen and Brussels
05/10/2011 > 04/03/2012
In 1947, Marc Sleen and his wife moved from Ghent to Brussels. They finally settled in the village of Hoeilaart in the suburbs of Brussels, which is also famous for greenhouse-grown grapes. Given the fact that Marc Sleen spent so much of his time in the Belgian capital, it is no wonder that Brussels features so prominently as the background for the adventures of his comic strip heroes. Two Nero stories are even set entirely in Brussels: De zwarte toren (The Black Tower) (1983) and De verdorven stad (Sin City) (1984).
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New exhibition
05/04/2011 > 25/09/2011
On 12 April 2011, it was fifty years ago since Russian-born Yuri Gagarin was launched into space in Vostok 1. Even though this Russian’s adventure put a human being into space for the very first time, his space travel was preceded by various comic strip heroes. Not least Nero, who as early as in 1951, already set foot onto the planet of Pompelanium in the comic strip album De zwarte voeten (The Black Feet).
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Stichting Marc Sleen
Zandstraat 33-35
1000 Brussel
Tel.: + 32 (0)2 219 19 80
Fax: + 32 (0)2 219 23 76
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