The history of this hotel goes back to the 18th century, when coaches and barouches stopped at the Saint-Jean Hotel which served as a love getaway  for Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine.  In 1932, the Saint-Jean Hotel became the Siru Hotel, and today it is the Siru Comfort Art Hotel.   Between 1989 and 1990, the hotel commissioned 130 painters, sculptors, and comic-strip draughtsmen such as Ravel, Somville, Sweetlove, Schulten and others, to turn its 101 rooms into as many paintings.  In the process they  turned the Siru into the first “museum hotel” in the world.
	Every floor features a travel theme such as “traveller's memory” and the “traveller's dream.”  The corridors feature original comic strips and verses by French and Flemish poets written on the walls.   Behind the neon façade by Fernand Flauch are 101 rooms with as many performances of time and visitors.  These works are staged by Somville, Van Heydonck, Boomptutte and Cotteau.
Guests can sleep and dream under skies of luggage, riddled with tempests and pierced with arrows and quivers, or in the arms of angels, contemplating the gathering of flying rocks or pencils. The traveller leaves the Siru Comfort Art Hotel as if leaving a dream.  With the sensation of having taken part in a show and a perception of not being in a hotel but in an art gallery where the mind aspires to only one thing.......  to come back.