Installed in the beautiful renovated space of the former stables of the gendarmerie barracks, the museum's collections consist of works by artists from the 19th and 20th centuries relating to Charleroi, the Wallonia region and Belgium. The works reflect major trends in the history of national and international art, such as Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Orientalism, Realism, Impressionism, Abstraction, Surrealism, etc.

Parallel to the permanent collections, the Museum puts on temporary exhibitions on various themes.