Treasure
of the St-Waudru's Collegiate Church
A small room full of remarkable collection of
works of art linked to the cult, memory and remembrance of the Chapter. This is one of the most beautiful
collections of goldsmith's works in Belgium.
The Transparent
Hypergothic
The collegiate church
of Sainte-Waudru becomes a multimedia laboratory for the discovery of gothic
architecture. This collaborative project of Mons 2015, the University of Mons
and the Church Council of Sainte-Waudru, aspires to "see beyond the
walls" by exploiting the extraordinary richness of the building. Thanks
to digital technology and geolocalisation, by creating a video game to discover
the treasures of the collegiate church, by using digital tablets, composed of
12 locations in the collegiate church of Sainte-Waudru, it enables the visitor
to discover, via enhanced reality, the fascinating details and architecture of
the collegiate church.
Foucault Pendulum
A simple device conceived as an experiment to demonstrate
the rotation
of the Earth, named after the French physicist Léon
Foucault. While it had long been known that the Earth
rotates, the introduction of the Foucault pendulum in 1851 was the first simple
proof of the rotation in an easy-to-see experiment.