Fernand Mayence et les moulages en Belgique : un musée universitaire (1927) et une reconstitution architecturale spectaculaire (1933)

Fernand Mayence (1879-1959) was a major figure in classical archeology in Belgium. Attached to the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) from 1907 and to the Antiquities section of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels from 1913, he was the founder, successively, of the Museum of Classical Archaeology at Louvain in 1927 and of the Room of Apamea on the Orontes in 1933 in Brussels. These achievements are significant ones in the history of collections of plaster casts in Belgium during the first half of the twentieth century.