Artistic and Monumental Heritage
UMONS has an important monumental and artistic heritage. Numerous paintings, steles, sculptures, war memorials, stained glass windows and artistic installations can be found on the institution’s premises, including two stained glass windows by Anto Carte, a local artist from the first half of the 20th century. The first, dedicated fallen soldiers and entitled Morts pour la patrie is installed in the Warocqué School of Business and Economics, while the other, which came from the Hensies-Pommeroeul collieries, was restored and installed in 1982 in a building of the Faculty of Engineering (FPMs) on Boulevard Dolez. UMONS also owns a series of murals from the early 20th century depicting collieries in the various coalfields of the Hainaut and Namur provinces, on the first floor of the FPMs building on Rue de Houdain. This building, which has existed since 1545, and was remodelled in its current form in the 18th century by local architect Claude-J. de Bettignies, is itself listed in the Walloon heritage inventory.
UMONS has other prestigious buildings, including the Warocqué School of Business and Economics, the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, the Bélian chapel on Rue d’Havré, the former Mons police station on Rue du Rossignol and the former Visitation convent on Place du Parc, which houses the University’s libraries, museum and administrative offices. This heritage is complemented by the Hibakusha Park on the Plaine de Nimy campus, created in memory of the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings in 1945, and by the antique furniture scattered throughout the institution’s buildings: glass cupboards from 1900-1910, coat racks from the École des Mines (Mining School), desks that belonged to prominent figures in the institution, etc.
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