Villa royale Marie-Henriette, Royal villa in Spa, Belgium

The Villa Royale Marie-Henriette is a three-part building erected in 1863, set behind a low dark wall. Its symmetrical stone facade has a mansard roof with five dormer windows, five tall upper windows with a balustraded balcony on each side of the taller central one, and a carved surround around the glazed entrance.

The building was erected in 1863 by hotelier Pierre-Louis Nagant-Courtinat as the Hôtel du Midi, then sold in 1886 to the Sury family and enlarged in 1887–1888. Queen Marie-Henriette bought it in 1894, transformed it over a year, and moved in on 15 July 1895; she died there on 19 September 1902. In 1915 the German Red Cross requisitioned it for convalescents, and the town of Spa acquired it on 20 November 1963.

Since 1965 the central wing has housed the Musée de la ville d'eaux, the museum of the spa town. Its permanent display presents more than 300 pieces of Jolités de Spa, the decorated wooden objects made by Spa cabinetmakers and decorators over four centuries.

The villa stands in a courtyard setting with covered galleries linking the three buildings; the cast-iron lamp post in the rectangular courtyard is a listed element. The whole site and its immediate surroundings have been protected since 27 September 1972, with facades, galleries and roofs inventoried in 1994. The museum occupies the central wing, while the west wing housed the police and works service and the east wing the Justice of the Peace.

The museum's permanent display holds more than 300 pieces of Spa's decorated wooden objects, the Jolités de Spa, made by cabinetmakers and decorators in local workshops over four centuries. The building itself was bought by the commune of Spa on 20 November 1963 to house its collections.