House of landscape and art.
The Emile Van Doren Museum is a living museum, not just commemorating the past and the tradition of landscape painting by the so-called station d'artistes Genck, but also developing current and contemporary activities. Always, landscape takes centre stage.
The museum recounts the tradition of landscape painting as it existed in Genk from 1840 to 1940, a period in which more than 300 artist worked here. All this is set in the original interiors of villa Le Coin Perdu, the former artist's residence of one of these painters, Emile Van Doren. With constantly changing exhibitions, the museum explores this largely unknown, yet immensely fascinating and surprising period in local history.
