The municipal museum occupies the ground floor of a former convent building was built in the seventeenth century. During his inauguration by Father Lemire in 1927, the main lines of its collections were defined: local history and folklore, ancient painting Netherlandish, French painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The visitor is first greeted by the giant Roland, who like the other giants of the processional Hazebrouck city, this is the museum throughout the year. Under the guise of a knight in arms, Roland echoes the legendary lord of death Hazebrouck the Crusades. The family of Tisje Tasje, Toria, Babe Tisje and Zoon Tisje occupies one of the rooms devoted to regional ethnology. These five giants belong to the association Friends of philanthropic Tisje Tasje and are associated with major local events (parades, carnivals, etc.).
The reconstruction of a traditional Flemish cuisine gives to see various everyday objects, reminiscent of activities around the hearth of a real common room (cot, wheel, utensils, etc.).. We can also admire a set of earthenware and glazed land.
The most important section, in quantity and quality, the museum's collections for the painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biggest names are represented around workshops Van Dyck, Rubens, Teniers and the categories queens of Flemish painting: still life, portrait, mythology, history, not to mention the religious scenes.
A gallery devoted to the art then around the sacred treasure of the church Saint-Eloi, religious sculptures and paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, includingThe Temptation of St Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch's workshop and St. Augustine by Alonso De Herrera.
The last gallery of the cloister to discover among other work of César Pattein painter born in 1850 Hazebrouck, including engaging Fixed unexpected.
Room bears the name of Lucien Jonas. Anzin born painter, he was a friend of Father Lemire and has achieved monumental fall of the tyrant who occupies an entire wall of the room. This space is dedicated to the academic painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As part of the Parisian salons, artists of the time made known their work with patrons and collectors. Thus, Emile Renard, Paul Mathey and others have signed portraits of command as more personal works.
Finally, the last four rooms house temporary exhibitions at the rate of two per year. These rooms also allow, through a renewed attachment to present the works held in reserve. Currently, you can find some pictures of the eighteenth century French Second Empire furniture, etc..
It should be noted that the museum Hazebrouck been awarded the "Musée de France".
