The collection XXX – The Museum of Forgotten History, with intervention by Maarten Vanden Eynde
(c)image: M HKA
Objecten uit de Vrielynck Collectie [Objects from the Vrielynck Collection]
The Vrielynck Collection is one of the few large collections in Belgium to provide us with a picture of the history of film. The collection, accumulated by Robert Vrielynck (1933-2006), largely comprises early film cameras and projectors, as well as a large number of film posters. A smaller section of the collection consists of so-called pre-cinema devices, a term which is increasingly being replaced by that of media archaeology.
The Vrielynck Collection gives us an overview of the technical evolution of the film medium over a period of 150 years. The film equipment covers the domains of both professional cinema and amateur film. The collection also comprises a large number of curios and documents relating directly to the history of cinematography: publicity, photos, merchandising, shares, lobby cards, catalogues and Robert Vrielynck’s personal film library. It also includes several special pieces of equipment such as a camera that originally belonged to the Lumière brothers and a magic lantern in the form of the Eiffel Tower, manufactured as part of the Paris World Exhibition in 1889.
