Why a Sleen Foundation?
The Marc Sleen Foundation and the associated Marc Sleen Museum originated from the author’s outspoken wish to have his work preserved and revealed to the public. Right from the start his wish was reinforced by the enthusiasm of several partners and that of a large community of comic strip fans. The Foundation carries out his conviction to encourage, mainly through the Museum, this enthusiasm in those who rediscover Sleen’s work as well as those who just get acquainted with it. In short, the Foundation makes, according to the author’s wish, the life work of Marc Sleen known to young and old.
For the comic strip world in Brussels the establishment of the Marc Sleen Foundation is a historic step forward. For the first time the works of a Belgian author are collected in an archive thanks to government aid. If this initiative is possible in Brussels of all places, it shows once again that this capital, on all levels of society, has a heart for the Ninth Art.
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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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