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Stavelot Abbey
The Abbey of Stavelot is brilliantly restored and has three fascinating musea. They all tell the story of a prestigious past. You can also have a look at the contemporary art gallery, many temporary exhibitions and you can relax in the extraordinary garden.
- Museum of the Principality
- Guillaume Appolinaire Museum
- Museum of the Spa Francorpchamps Race Track
The temporary exposition "Un certain Robert Doisneau" ("A certain Robert Doisneau") shows the work of one of the best French photographers ever (3 February - 30 September 2012).
The Stavelot Abbey presents, for the first time ever in Belgium, a retrospective exhibition on Robert Doisneau (1912-1994).
Born a 100 years ago, Robert Doisneau is the last century’s best known and most acknowledged French photographer. Author of the famous The Kiss at City Hall, Doisneau wonderfully masters the art the instant, seeming to capture a second of the intimacy of a life in an action shot.
Subtly staging the anecdote, his humanist photographs are marked with humour, simple happiness, nostalgia, irony and tenderness. The photographs by Doisneau, a true poet of the eighth art, take us on a journey through time and make us relive almost a century of the everyday life of a crowd, a child or two lovers…
Doisneau’s reputation was firmly established through his black and white photographs of the inhabitants of Paris: craftsmen, tramps, street urchins, lovers in the bistros, streets, suburbs and avenues. The exhibition “A certain Robert Doisneau” provides us with an opportunity to meet Robert Doisneau beyond his most famous photos by also presenting us coloured photographs and, exclusively at the Stavelot Abbey, unpublished photographs of Belgium.
Stavelot is a great little town in the valley of the river Amblève. Book a holiday cottage with Ardennes-Etape to explore the Belgian Ardennes to the fullest and to relax after a visit to the Stavelot Abbey.
Two for the price of one thanks to Ardennes-Etape on presentation of the Guide Ardennes-Pass. Valid for the three museums.
Opening hours
Open every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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