The Hergé Museum is much more than your average museum: visitors travel deep within the life and work, the trials, tribulations, and astounding creativity of one man, and in doing so traverse the era in which he lived.
Photo © Nicolas Borel - Architecte Christian de Portzamparc (2009)
From the outset, I always wanted the architecture of the Museum to be modern, simply because Hergé really liked modern art, be it painting, sculpture, furniture or architecture. Most of all I wanted this to be a place that would display the work of Hergé in its totality. Of course Tintin is the most well known, famous, celebrated and loved side of his work, but it shouldn’t be forgotten that Hergé was much more than Tintin. Speaking for myself, as a little girl and then a teenager, I obviously didn’t know Hergé’s work outside of Tintin’s adventures.
It was only later that I discovered that, while these books, translated into dozens of languages for hundreds of millions of readers, were evidently Hergé’s masterpieces, they still didn’t eclipse the other drawings, magnificent sketches, posters and caricatures of this first-rate artist.
Fanny Rodwell
President of Studios Hergé
