Antwerp - Museum Mayer van den Bergh

 
In the course of only a short period during the 1890s, a connoisseur of the fine arts, Fritz Mayer van den Burgh, assembled a remarkable collection of more than 3,000 items. These are now displayed on four floors of a Neo-Gothic house at Lange Gasthuisstraat 19. The collection includes some superlative works of art, among them paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ("Dulle Griet" and the earliest of the artist's signed works "The Twelve Proverbs", both in Room 26), Rubens, Jordaens, Bouts, van der Weyden, van Ostade, Lucas Cranach and Quentin Massys.

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Also of great interest are the Flemish and French religious statues, the outstanding collection of ivories, and a unique 16th C. Flemish breviary, and in Room 14, a polychrome group "Christ with St John" (1300) by Henry of Constance and a Netherlands diptych (ca. 1400).

The second floor features a collection of porcelain, while 17th C. furniture and paintings occupy the third.
Address: Mayer Van den Bergh Museum, Lange Gasthuisstraat 19, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Hours:
10am-5pm; Closed: Mon
Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), May Day / Labor Day (May 1), All Saints' Day - Christian (November 1), Christmas - Christian (December 25), Day after Christmas, St Stephen's Day, Boxing Day (December 26), Ascension Thursday - Christian
Transit: Bus: 7, 8, 9.
Typical Visit: 2 hours

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