Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek

Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek also called mudel, is a museum of pleasant arts and folklore placed inside the town of Deinze, Belgium. The everlasting exhibition displays completely artworks produced through artists who labored or lived in the vicinity from approximately 1879 to nowadays in addition to folkloristic objects. The museum series is going lower back to the gadgets collected with the aid of the Deinze Art and Archaeological Circle, which became founded in 1928. The Circle received archaeological gadgets and files as well as works of art. At the equal time, the city of

Deinze had received over time a reasonably large series of works, partly via donations and partly via purchase through the metropolis authorities out of a budget set apart for the purchase of artworks. In 1941 a suggestion was released to set up a city museum in Deinze totally to show the paintings of artists from the Leie vicinity, with an emphasis at the paintings of artists operating in the village of Sint-Martens-Latem. The donation of the masterwork 'Beet harvest' of Emile Claus by way of the artist's widow to the city was a decisive aspect inside the finalisation of the plan.