The Mundaneum is a non-profit exhibition space and archive in Mons, Wallonia, housed in a converted 1930s department store. It grew from an initiative begun in 1895 by the Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, and it was created in 1910. The museum in Mons opened in 1998. The article names no architect or style for this building.
Its first home was the left wing of the Cinquantenaire Palace in Brussels, which Otlet first called the Palais Mondial. It was later reconstituted in a large but decrepit building in Leopold Park and forced to move again in 1972. In 1929 Otlet commissioned Le Corbusier to design a Mundaneum for Geneva, which was never built.
After the Nazi invasion in 1940, the Mundaneum was replaced with an exhibit of Third Reich art, and some material was lost.
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