The Salon: a space for inquiry and imagination
Het Salon is a place within M HKA where everyone is free to explore, feel and imagine. Not in search of right answers, but of personal paths between art and experience. As a key space within the museum, Het Salon makes tangible what M HKA stands for.
What is Het Salon?
In Het Salon, the visitor takes centre stage. It is neither a classroom nor a play area, but an open space where everyone can explore, experience and imagine in their own way. Here, art is not an end point that first requires explanation, but a point of departure for encounter, reflection and play.
Three ways to experience Het Salon
Het Salon consists of three zones, each offering a different kind of experience:
- Silence and reflection: a place to pause, leaf through, think or write.
- Sensory stimuli: objects and materials to explore, touch and evoke memories.
- Open studio: a place to make something, leave something behind or share, alone or together.
Who is it for?
Whether you are a child, young person, adult or visitor with care needs: in Het Salon, you are a researcher. You are free to associate, feel, try, fail and begin again. Sometimes this happens through words, sometimes through materials, movement or silence. There are no right answers. What matters is the freedom to draw your own connections between art, the world and experience.
Families find a place here where children can follow their curiosity and adults can move along with them. Young people are given space and agency. Visitors without prior knowledge, or with care needs, also find calm, time and an accessible way to take part.
Het Salon is more than an educational space. It is a key place within M HKA where visitors actively become part of what art can be today.