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Mundaneum Museum and Archive

museum, Mons, Belgium
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The Mundaneum Museum and Archive is located in Mons, Belgium. It houses the personal papers and a portion of the original collection of Paul Otlet, a Belgian bibliographer and entrepreneur. Otlet's ambitious project, the Mundaneum, aimed to create a universal repository of all the world's recorded knowledge. His work in information science and his vision for a global information network anticipated the World Wide Web. The museum opened in 1998, preserving Otlet's legacy and his groundbreaking ideas on organizing and accessing information.

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