The Museum Shop
Looking for an original gift or souvenir of your visit ? In our shop at the entrance to the museum you’ll find a wide variety of quality items: history and art books, children’s books and comics, museum games, jewellery, gloves, badges and watches or greetings cards and posters, ties, scarves and t-shirts or replicas of paintings. Take your time, we’ll be delighted to advise you.
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Le Frondeur
Ellen Kerremans
Between 1868 and 1869, the Leuven-based liberal and anti-clerical journal Le Frondeur published 37 biting satirical prints of exceptional quality, primarily targeting the Catholic Church and its claims to a presence in the public sphere. Priests, monks, bishops, and the Pope were among their main targets.
Today, it is not always easy to understand the precise references behind these caricatures. In this book, historian Ellen Kerremans analyses the prints in the light of their socio-political significance, allowing readers to view them through the eyes of people living 150 years ago.
This book offers an insight into the world of the liberal and anti-clerical bourgeoisie surrounding the Leuven lodge La Constance. The journal and its remarkable satirical prints provide a unique window into the intellectual landscape of some Freemasons in a Flemish provincial town in the mid-nineteenth century.
Available in Dutch
La Franc-Maçonnerie entre Ciel et Terre
Farouk El Moussarih
I hesitated for a long time over choosing a title for my book, a title that would convey my feelings and my profound appreciation of Freemasonry, which continues to astonish and intrigue the world through its secrecy and through its intellectual philosophy, founded on tolerance and the acceptance of others, regardless of their reasoning or opinions, as long as they believe in and respect the freedom of thought of others.
I spent a great deal of time reflecting on the name of the book. From the very beginning of my immersion in the study of Masonic thought, I felt that Freemasonry could be regarded as one of many philosophical currents, without necessarily constituting a fully structured ideology. At the same time, through its rituals and lodges, which have historically incorporated certain influences from Catholicism, it also displays characteristics reminiscent of religious and spiritual doctrines. However, Freemasonry is not a revealed religion.
Available in French and English
Culture et franc-maçonnerie, même combat ?
Daniel Menschaert
Culture and Freemasonry: a shared struggle against reactionary excesses, cultural censorship and far-right attacks. At a time when freedom, inclusion and critical thinking are under threat, this book sheds light on an essential struggle to preserve the foundations of a living humanism: the circulation of ideas, the dignity of difference and creative expression liberated from dogma.
The symbolic, initiatory and spiritual dimensions of Freemasonry intertwine with art, literature, the theatrical dimension of ritual, and the exploration of myth, revealing how the Masonic experience nurtures resistance, inner transformation and engagement within society.
Available in French