page_title: Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek / History
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: "Bietenoogst" (1890) – olie op doek door Emile Claus; 320 x 480 cm; Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, België
context_page_description: Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, also known as mudel, is a museum of fine arts and folklore located in the city of Deinze, Belgium. The permanent exhibition displays exclusively artworks produced by artists who worked or lived in the region from about 1879 to today as well as folkloristic objects.
context_section_description: The museum collection goes back to the objects collected by the Deinze Art and Archaeological Circle, which was founded in 1928.  The Circle acquired archaeological objects and documents as well as works of art.  At the same time, the city of Deinze had acquired through the years a fairly large collection of works, partly through donations and partly through purchase by the city government out of a budget set aside for the acquisition of artworks.
  In 1941 a proposal was launched to establish a city museum in Deinze solely to show the work of artists from the Leie region, with an emphasis on the work of artists working in the village of Sint-Martens-Latem (often shortened to ‘Latem’).  The donation of the masterwork 'Beet harvest' of Emile Claus by the artist's widow to the town was a decisive factor in the finalisation of the plan.
  The Museum was officially established on 7 March 1942. The Belgian state provided support by offering to provide loans from its collection of art works. The Deinze Art and Archaeological Circle also gave several works from its collection on loan to the museum, but it retained its archaeological objects and archival material.
  The collection of the town of Deinze and the collection of the Deinze Art and Archaeological Circle were originally displayed in a neo-Gothic building near the church of Deinze. As the art collection grew through purchases and donations it became necessary to build a new museum. On 28 November 1981 the new museum was inaugurated.  The new building is located near the center of the city and along the river Leie. It was the first building built in Belgium solely for the purpose of serving as a museum after World War II.
caption: Beet harvest by Emile Claus
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