Adults

A chronological and thematic approach focusing primarily on the museum’s key works.
(PLEASE NOTE: The Fine Arts tour is only available as part of a 90-minute guided tour)

What insights do our collections offer into the world of work, leisure, education, housing, and the roles of men, women and children…?

A selection of depictions and scenes of children from the 19th and 20th centuries, drawn from our collections.

From the 19th century onwards, there was a boom in sport and health. The museum’s building and collections bear witness to this. A healthy mind in a healthy body (Juvenal).

Our collections illustrate and bear witness to key moments in both our national and regional history. 

When political or private commissions shape art: an exploration of the relationship between institutions, patronage and artists.

Places, buildings, and people—both famous and ordinary: a glimpse of Roubaix.

A journey through some of our works, guided by the scents created for Christian Astuguevieille’s sensory experience.

Featuring a selection of outstanding works by Bonheur, Barye, Gardet, Debrie, Pompon, Bugatti, Poupelet, Sandoz, Lemar, Nam, Jouve…

A thematic, historical and technical approach.

Art from the Nord region through textiles, painting and sculpture (fabric samples and archives from regional companies, Carpeaux, Cogghe, Weerts, the Roubaix Group).

From the old municipal swimming pool to a museum: ambitious architecture promoting leisure and social diversity. How did this building come to be a museum today?

The exhibition rotates on a regular basis for conservation purposes. A different theme is therefore presented each quarter.

How is modesty reflected in the museum’s artworks? What artistic devices do artists employ to express modesty or their own sense of modesty? How did they circumvent the taboos of their time?

Albert Baert, a Freemason and architect, is said to have enjoyed incorporating symbols of his Masonic affiliation into his buildings.

From painting to textiles, via sculpture, drawing and objets d’art (Camille Claudel, Tamara de Lempicka, Poupelet…).

Featured in the museum’s collections and throughout the building, stained glass is explored from historical, stylistic and technical perspectives.

How art exposes the unacceptable.