Le Grand-Hornu

Le Grand-Hornu has been built between 1810 and 1830, and combines mining infrastructures with the homes of administrators and workers.

The mine buildings are arranged around an oval courtyard while the management offices are adjacent to the equipment stores and workshops.

The 400 houses for the workers were built during the same period and each has a living-room, kitchen, three bedrooms upstairs, a cellar, and a small garden in the back.

The town also had a school, public baths, a dance-hall and a library.

Restoration work began in 1971, and the site now houses the Belgian Frenchspeaking

community’s museum of contemporary art (MAC : http://www.mac-s.be).

Monument classé par Arrêté ministériel de la Région wallonne (11-03-1993)

Repris sur la liste du P. E. de Wallonie

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