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The Mundaneum is an archive centre and exhibition space in Mons, housed since 1993 in an Art Deco former cooperative department store. It keeps the collections of Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, who set out from 1895 to classify all published knowledge; their card index, the Universal Bibliographic Repertory, is on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.
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Maison Van Gogh is the miner's house in Cuesmes, part of Mons, where Vincent van Gogh lodged in 1880 while working as a lay preacher in the Borinage coalfield, and where he decided to become an artist. A visitor pavilion, reproductions of his Borinage drawings, a facsimile letter and a reconstructed interior present his stay.
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