Musée et Jardins van Buuren

Built between 1924 and 1928 as the private home of banker and art collector David Van Buuren and his wife, Alice Piette, the Van Buuren Museum & Gardens (Musée et Jardins van Buuren) was conceived as a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, in which architecture, furnishings and an art collection form a single whole. The house follows the Amsterdam School style, and its interior is richly decorated in Art Deco.

The collection displayed in the house spans the 15th to the 20th centuries. Around the house, the gardens are the work of two landscape architects: Jules Buyssens, who designed them in 1924, and René Pechère, whose work dates from 1968 to 1970.

Following Alice Van Buuren's wishes, the house became a museum in 1975, and it has been a protected heritage site since 2001. It stands on avenue Léo Errera in Uccle, a few steps from the Churchill Roundabout. It suits visitors interested in 1920s architecture, interior design and landscape art.