We're changing our opening times from Tuesday 1 October!

The museum will now be open
- 9am to 5pm, Tuesday to Friday  
- 10am to 6pm, Saturday & Sunday 
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Alain Meert et Patrick Marczewski, Le musée idéal, technique mixte, 290 x 185 x 80 cm , 2019. Atelier : Créahm Liège (BE) ©M.Thies/collection trinkhallmuseum

THE IDEAL MUSEUM

The Ideal Museum is a piece created throughout 2019 by one of the leading artists of the Créahm workshops, Alain Meert, in preparation for the opening of the Trinkhall. The artist answered our question - What is a museum? - with a galleon in full sail, which casually displays drawings, paintings and sculptures. It is a scene of paper, cardboard, objects, multiple unusual and familiar presences, lodged precisely between states of consciousness. The whole world that fits into a boat: Alain Meert's ark. And it is a museum, just as we want it to be, dreamily navigating among ideas, shapes and emotions. Ship Lieutenant Alain Meert is a pirate. So, let’s all climb aboard with a heave ho!

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Malgré l'effroi

Malgré l'effroi

Sheltered from the terrifying noises that descend on the world - the violence, the threats, the denials, the obscene blindness that is going on right now - we stay in our cabin at the Trinkhall, modestly and ambitiously celebrating, against all odds, what we call the expressive power of fragile worlds. We stay in our cabin where we take care of the fireflies, which we carry as a banner, the works of the collection, which keep on coming from something so precious yet today, humiliated, the gestures of creation deployed all over the world, against all odds, in the intimacy of workshops, the invigorating enigma of shared disparity.

More than ever, we want to stay in our straw house, doors open to those who honour us with a visit - children in disarray, couples holding hands, walkers, strangers, acquaintances, hobbyists, poets, friends. Sometimes the light sings on the museum walls where the shadow of the branches settles; the happy memory of the cedar of Lebanon, of old trees and new trees. Should we give up on both joy and melancholy, cut from the same cloth - a point of lightness, a point of gravity - that brings together our eyes, our emotions, our existence? On the museum walls: reasons to hope, against all odds!

And then, despite the fear, if we were to support the cabin and strengthen its walls a little, why not place things under the tree?  Printsframes, books, objects...

the museum's partners
Ville de liège Province de Liège Culture Province de Liège Culture WBI AVIQ Loterie Belfius Cera La première Université de Liège Fnrs la liberté de chercher IGuzzini