[3] In this context, Louvain-la-Neuve innovated in 1979 thanks to Professor Ignace Vandevivere who convinced the academic authorities of the UCLouvain to build a museum.

In 2006, the founder of the stockbroking firm Petercam and UCLouvain alumnus Jean Peterbroeck, a generous patron, offered 10 million euros for the construction of the new museum.

It was planned to be a low-energy building, completely curved to follow the contours of the lake, and equipped with a sloping green roof.

[8]Having quadrupled its heritage in thirty years,[10] which had become too narrow and lacking in visibility,[11] the University of Louvain had to find a solution after the aborted projects of 1996, 2003 and 2011.

The former Science and Technology Library is a building in a brutalist style[13] built by the architect André Jacqmain[14] between 1970 and 1975,[15] during the construction of the city of Louvain-la-Neuve.

[16] The project is financed by UCLouvain, by the public authorities (including the province of Walloon Brabant, which contributed more than one million euros)[2] and by private patrons (companies and individuals).

[11] As the museum of Louvain-la-Neuve, the name is also a reference to its sister city Leuven's (Louvain in French) Museum M. The Musée L is inaugurated on 14 November 2017 in the presence of Princess Astrid, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve Mayor Jean-Luc Roland, UCLouvain Rector Vincent Blondel and his three predecessors (Marcel Crochet, Bernard Coulie and Bruno Delvaux) as well as numerous local, provincial, regional and federal authorities.

[1] The collections cover fields as varied as printmaking (Dürer, Van Dyck, Goya, Rodin, Picasso...), Belgian 20@th century art (Magritte, Alechinski)[1] and sculpture.