The museum is located in the centre of Louvain-la-Neuve, on the edge of a green park, Le Parc de la Source.
Although his most famous creation, The Adventures of Tintin, features prominently, his other comic strip characters (such as Jo, Zette and Jocko, and Quick and Flupke) are also present.
Moving down one floor, visitors enter the largest room in the museum, devoted to places in the world Tintin has travelled.
[13] When the building was unveiled to the press on May 25, 2009, they were not allowed to photograph or film any of the exhibits "to avoid a multitude of shots of the originals on display in the rooms".
[15] The construction of the Musée Hergé also led to the closure of the Maison des Jeunes de Louvain-la-Neuve, as the building it occupied on the outskirts of the museum's present site was demolished.
German news outlet Die Welt wrote: " [...] the only things we learn [about Hergé] in Louvain is what his sole heiress and widow Fanny Rodwell wants to let us know.
According to the countless private black-and-white photographs and exhibition texts, Hergé [...] was a very smart, cheerful man, sociable, with a large circle of friends and an enormous creative power (which certainly no one disputes).
The visitor learns absolutely nothing about his sympathies for Brussels' racist policies in the Belgian Congo and Nazi Germany - which the artist later openly regretted -, about his partially reactionary, strictly Catholic upbringing or even about his severe depression.