The first sunday of April 2015. We took the advantage of the free entrance to the exhibitions and went to the old
slaughterhouse which now hosts temporary events for contemporary arts.
Mons Superstars
(Until April 12, 2015)
A land of inventors and
innovations. Featuring great mean and women from the town of Mons, all of whom
have helped transform this town and its surrounding region.
This exhibition offers us an
interactive experience, combining knowledge and fun discoveries. We were given a
mini tablet and headphones to explore the story. There’s a star sign with
name and icon which we needed to scan from the floor to provide us informations
in text and video.
Got my tablet freeze in the middle
of the tour so had to exchange it. And his
battery was dying before we’re finished, instead of getting a new one, he was
given a powerbank to charge it on the go, cool!
Do you know.. that a Heliometer,
an optical instrument used for measuring the sun’s diameter was designed by the
Mons-born astronomer?
Or how Nicolas Hardenpont develop
the juicy pear as we know it today.
There’s so many examples of
amazing boldness, optimism and preverance.
This is a treasure hunt and voyage
of discovery, a quest for fascinating facts and stories.
Hollywood at the Foot of the Slag Heap
(Until May 17, 2015)
Sixty years before the exhibition “Van Gogh in the Borinage”, Vincente
Minnelli and Kirk Douglas filmed “Lust for Life” in Petit-Wasmes, Hornu and Saint-Ghislain,
in the places that had been the painter’s haunts 75 years earlier.
Relive
the excitement of the ten-day shoot that brought Hollywood to the foot of the
slag heap.