The policy objectives of the City of Bruges and of Musea Brugge include the realisation of a new museum and art site as a top priority. The Flemish government has also highlighted this project as an important lever for cultural policy in Flanders. The assessment committee decided to work on this project with the developer CIT Red and the design team led by Robbrecht and Daem architects and Olivier Salens architects.
With the name BRUSK, Musea Brugge wishes to put itself firmly on the cultural and artistic map. With BRUSK, the city will focus on attracting and organising innovative exhibitions, with state-of-the-art possibilities for performances and presentations.
"With BRUSK, the city will focus on innovative exhibitions."
On the Garenmarkt site, next to the Groeningemuseum, the new exhibition hall will comprise two museum spaces and opens out onto a new park. In total, the site covers an area of some 20,000m², which will be attractively laid out and made available to the public. The exhibition areas will be constructed at a raised level and will be separated from each other by a public passageway, so that an open, transparent and freely accessible ground level will be created. This ground level will be given over in its entirety to the city, its inhabitants and its visitors.
BRUSK's exhibition rooms will stand out in the museum landscape, not only by virtue of their sublime natural fall of light
(from the north side, as was usually the case in the great artistic workshops of the past), but also because of their unique
height (which is reminiscent of a church or cathedral). In this way, BRUSK breaks with the trend of most museums and
exhibition spaces, which tend to avoid making use of natural light, preferring to rely almost exclusively on its electric
alternative.
In the years ahead Bruges plans to invest in an impressive master plan for its historic city centre. In addition to the construction of BRUSK, the heart of the museum city will be refurbished. The entire site will be given a make-over that will include a new park and in which the renovation of the Groeningemuseum forms an essential part. The new Musea Brugge Centrum voor
Collectieonderzoek (Centre for Collection Research) – a place for in-depth scientific investigation – will be given a prominent position. Storage space will also be provided for the most vulnerable collections managed by Musea Brugge, in particular the collection of paintings, prints and drawings. Finally, extra space will be provided for conservation and restoration. With this project, Musea Brugge aims to achieve four core ambitions: display, preserve, research and welcome.
More information
Read more about the design on the Musea Brugge website.
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