What is the Foundation?
The executive council of the Foundation is made up by representatives of Brussels Capital Region, the Belgian Comic Strip Center, Standaard Uitgeverij as the publisher of Nibbs, the daily paper De Standaard and a representative of Marc Sleen himself.
The Marc Sleen Foundation does not only preserve the immense life work of Marc Sleen, it also makes every effort to protect it and to promote it to a large public. Of vital importance here are the 15.000 originals of Marc Sleen that make up the Foundation’s collection. All throughout the year a selection of originals, turning on a regular basis, is shown to the public in the Gallery of the Marc Sleen Museum. Finally the Foundation wants to keep Marc Sleen’s works alive through new translations and editions of rare or less known works.
News
1 year Marc Sleen Museum
18/06/2010 > 26/09/2010
Marc Sleen was certainly a visionary when in 1995, in the comic strip story The Ghost of Sand Street, he had his brainchild Nibbs meet a ghost in the completely run-down building along Sand Street in Brussels. At that time, no-one could ever have imagined that, with effect from 2009, that same building would be housing the Marc Sleen Museum.
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Marc Sleen on the Tawanese television
13/08/2009
In order to complete a travel program, the Taiwanese television produced a reportage over the Comic Strip culture in Belgium. The team was really pleased of its venue, as it had the chance to interview Marc Sleen, who was, per coincidence, visiting its own museum! De reportage will be shown during the fall on the Taiwanese television, and will probably be broadcast in other Asiatic countries.
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Inauguration of the Marc Sleen Museum
08/05/2009
Alongside its scientific activities, in the unique setting of what used to be a newspaper office, the Marc Sleen Foundation also proposes a standing exhibit, a reading room and series of temporary exhibits to discover the many facets of this exceptional work by a superb storyteller, a master comic strip artist and a brilliant cartoonist: Marc Sleen.
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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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