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[email protected] - +32 (0)2 508 34 08 www.fine-arts-museum.be 1 SUMMARY 1. EDITORIAL BY MICHEL DRAGUET 3 2. PRESS RELEASE 7 3. MUSÉE FIN-DE-SIÈCLE MUSEUM, A BEACON OF BELGIAN HERITAGE 8 4. MUSÉE FIN-DE-SIÈCLE MUSEUM WITH EDUCATEAM 20 5. A TECHNICAL CHALLENGE 21 6. A UNIQUE MULTIDISCIPLINARY PARTNERSHIP 24 7. MUSEE FIN-DE-SIECLE MUSEUM AND BASE DESIGN 30 8. EUROPALIA INDIA 31 9. VISITOR INFORMATION 32 2 1. EDITORIAL BY MICHEL DRAGUET Many contemporary studies see a major role for culture and, more particularly, for cultural heritage, in the development of an economy in Europe in order to break out of the crisis. Characterized as “old” and aware of the need to develop an economy based on sustainable development, Europe has to draw a vital impulse from what makes it historically distinctive : a knowledge economy rooted in a heri- tage that brings together, within a single perspective, natural sites and the evidence of an unrivalled past. In 2009 the first edition of the Forum d’Avignon emphasized this dual aspect of the development of our territory that would combine sustainable development with the promotion of our cultural heritage.