Mundaneum

Name: Mundaneum
Address: Rue de Nimy 76, 7000 Mons, Belgium, Mons, Belgium

4.3/5 ★ based on 8 reviews

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Address :	Rue de Nimy 76, 7000 Mons, Belgium
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Website :	http://www.mundaneum.org/
Categories :	Archive , Science museum ,
City :	Mons

Best Science museum in belgium

T	Tonghe Wang on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Mundaneum is an enormous index card system created by Paul Otlet in the early 20th century. He tried to catalogue and summarize all the human knowledge. And the only tools available to him were cards and cabinets. Each piece of information, eg a journal article or a book, is summarized on one index card. And three copies of this same card are stored in three pigeonholes — variously sorted according to names and theme, for example. The public could write a letter to “search for” a topic by a certain author. And the information on the “retrieved” cards are sent back to them in a letter. This small museum now houses three floors of cabinets containing his cards. At the entrance, an interactive device shows how his system worked.
A	Amanda Besen Borges on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Super small museum. Still, is a nice place to visit.
J	Juljan Desmet on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ You immediately understand why this is part of UNESCO heritage. It's simply beautiful and impressive. Don't forget to use the screen on your left-hand side as you've entered. It gives you a clear explanation of the classification system they use on all of the information cards.
D	Damir Medved on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Superb place.
D	Diana Mocanu on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Interesting temporary exhibitions, very expensive guided tour of the collections.
F	Fiona MacArthur on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great place, well worth visiting.
C	Cheryl Cooper on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fascinating early 20th century attempt to capture all human knowledge by two humanists (Henri de la Fontaine - Nobel Peace prize winner & co-founder of the League of Nations - and Paul Otlet, an imaginative visual thinker who foresaw the internet & Zoom and developed a universal classification system. Like an early search engine before computrs existed. Exhibition housed in an old Art Deco department store, only a short walk from the Mons Grand Place. Go!
J	Junior Milles on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The place itself is great without the content and museum posters, reports and presentations. Which are extra mural learning for everyone.