CAP/The Museum of Fine Arts

The CAP is a museum complex in the heart of downtown Mons, consisting of 3 entities:

• The Museum of Fine Arts
• The former Jean Lescarts house, recently renovated to house the Collections House, a museum site dedicated to the history of Mons through the town's collections;
• The "Buttery pear Tree" garden, which combines a stone collection, social spaces, and permaculture, linking the first two entities.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Mons highlights the incredible richness of the city's collections through its temporary exhibitions. It explores regional artists and movements (École de Mons (2019), Anto-Carte (2021)), and offers high-quality international exhibitions (Vincent Van Gogh (2015), Niki de Saint-Phalle (2018), Roy Lichtenstein (2020), Joan Miró (2022), Auguste Rodin (2024)). Today, the Museum of Fine Arts in Mons is embarking on a new direction, asserting an essential role within the city. With the "Buttery pear Tree" garden and the Collections House , the museum is freeing itself from its four walls, opening up to the city with its historical, urban, memorial, and societal challenges.