Mundaneum

The Mundaneum, open to the public since 1998, is an archive center of the French Community of Belgium (Wallonia-Brussels Federation) and a temporary exhibition space located since 1992 in Mons, in the province of Hainaut in Belgium.

Originally, from 1920 to 1934, it was located in Brussels, under the name of Mundaneum World Palace, and consisted of sixteen didactic rooms, a bibliographic repertoire comprising twelve million records, a press museum with 200,000 specimens of newspapers from around the world, taking up the collections mainly made up between 1895 and 1914.

Rediscovered after the explosion of the Internet, the Mundaneum and its founders, Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, are today identified as pioneers of the Web and search engines.

He has received the European Heritage Label.