Marcel Broodthaers: Musée d’art du XVIIe siècle

Views of the 17th century ’Eagles Department’ in Antwerp: façade, wooden crates, postcards of 17th-century works on the walls and a small garden. Marcel Broodthaers is whitewashing the inscription ’Département des Aigles’ written on the fence in the garden. Part of the BRT (Belgian radio and television broadcast network) television series ’Zoeklicht’ (’Searchlight’).

Content:
00’00" Views of Section du XVIIème siècle - Département des Aigles (XVIIth Century Section - Eagles Department) at n° 46 rue des Sculpteurs, Antwerp : facade, wooden crates, postcards of 17th-century works on the walls, small garden (with Département des Aigles written on the fence). 01’50" Brussels, Dr. Van Daalen closing the Section du XIXème Siecle - Département des Aigles du Musée d’Art Moderne with all due ceremony. Johannes Cladders, Van Daalen, Herman Daled and a few other persons loading crates into a lorry. Marcel Broodthaers in the small garden whitewashing the painted inscription Département des Aigles.  Pierre van Osselaere as a child posting up a small "For Sale" sign. Bus with guests leaving for Antwerp. 04’10" In Antwerp, Van Daalen pronouncing a speech for the official opening of Section du XVIIème siècle - Département des Aigles). Postcards on the walls and crates.
(Source: Jef Cornelis 1964 - 1990, Espace Art Contemporain : Maison de la culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, 1991)