The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, Belgium, is an art museum.

Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Tournai

Location within Belgium
Location	Tournai, Belgium
Type	Art museum
Website	mba.tournai.be

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At the beginning of the 20th century, Henri Van Cutsem, a Belgian art collector, offered his collection to the city of Tournai in 1905. The collection contained important works of important 19th century French painters like Manet, Monet, Seurat and others.

The Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta started drafting a new building that would contain the Van Cutsem donation and other holdings already owned by the city of Tournai but the First World War intervened and construction was delayed. Horta abandoned his first designs made in a typical Art Nouveau style, shifting to the popular art deco style. The building, which opened in 1928, is a graceful curved version of usually strict linearity of art deco, in this, it is similar to Horta's Brussels Central Station.

See also

• Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten in Brussels

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[de] Musée des Beaux-Arts (Tournai)

[fr] Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai