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CIVA is a museum and archive centre dedicated to landscape architecture and architecture. Unique in its kind in the cultural world, it offers a year-round program exploring the history, evolution, and future of landscape architecture.

Through exhibitions, lectures, publications and research initiatives, CIVA positions landscape architecture as a powerful lens to examine today’s urban and environmental challenges—and to imagine innovative solutions for the future.

As home to Belgium’s largest collection of landscape architecture archives, CIVA serves as a vital resource for researchers, professionals, and the public. Since 2008, it has also been the official archival repository of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).

The library offers a collection of over 60,000 publications, both old and new, on all aspects of landscape architecture, ecosystems, urban planning, architecture, and much more. The archives contain more than 500 collections of archives, documents, and objects from landscape architects and  architects such as Jean Canneel-Claes, Jules Buyssens, Jean Noël Capart, René Pechère, Renaat Braem,  Simone Guillissen-Hoa, Eliane Havenith, Huib Hoste, Victor Horta, and Henry van de Velde.

Starting in 2026, CIVA will move to a new location. Its programming and collections will be available to discover at KANAL after a period of closure for relocation.