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First Sunday of the month
Come to visit the Musée Hergé this Sunday November 3rd.
Free admission
On the first Sunday of every month entrance to the Hergé Museum is free! It is the perfect occasion to pay a visit to the 3000m2 of space dedicated to the creator of Tintin, Snowy and their friends. Hundreds of archival documents, more than 80 original illustration plates as well as objects and models…are there for your enjoyment.
Hergé shop
The Bookshop is freely accessible during the opening times of the Hergé Museum.
For the first time at the Musée Hergé, Tintin welcomes Michel van Loo
Interview and signing session... The Hergé Museum will be welcoming the author Alain Berenboom, who will be presenting Le coucou de Malines (The Cuckoo of Mechelen), the seventh volume in the saga of Michel van Loo, the private detective from Brussels.
Axel Cleenewerck (comics journalist with Agence Belga) agreed to present the novel, its author and its link with the world of Hergé.
Presentation and signing session: from 2.30 pm, in the atrium of the Hergé Museum.
About the novel
1957. Michel Van Loo is assigned to follow a young woman in Mechelen when he finds her stabbed to death in her home. The Brussels detective soon realises that it is not easy for a French-speaker to investigate in Flemish territory, especially as the linguistic quarrel between Flemish and French-speakers is growing, fuelled by a campaign to rehabilitate the Flemish collaborators convicted during the Liberation.
Despite these obstacles, Van Loo, supported by his Flemish fiancée Anne, persists. Who killed Gertrude De Vijver, a woman who was apparently leading a quiet life? He tracks down the man who ordered her murder, a certain Diego Bloemkool. Was it Bloemkool who had Gertrude killed? The man has a thousand faces and several lives (import-export, film producer, head of a security agency, and so on) but no address. Van Loo discovers, however, that Bloemkool is in league with a certain Vander aa, an equally disturbing character who is a great lover of 20th-century Flemish painting and has some rather murky connections…
After Perils in this Kingdom, The King of the Congo, The recipe for Italian Pigeon, Expo 58: The Spy Loses the Ball and Michel Van Loo disappears, Alain Berenboom chisels, in this new investigation by Michel Van Loo, colourful characters. He draws up with humour a biting portrait of post-war Belgium. A backfiring novel, mixed with Zwanze and grenadine Gueuze!
About the author
With more than sixteen novels to his name, Alain Berenboom has become a major figure in Belgian French-language literature. In 2013, he received the Rossel Prize for his story Monsieur Optimiste. In 2015, he was awarded the SCAM prize for his body of work. A lawyer specialising in copyright as well as a passionate and eclectic reader, Alain Berenboom is also a columnist for the newspaper, Le Soir.
And on top of that...
Each visitor will receive a gift.
