Leuven - Vanderkelen-Mertens Museum

Leaving the Grote Markt in the direction of the railroad station and turning right into Vanderkelenstraat the Vanderkelen Museum, which has the Municipal Museum Collections, is on the right. It is in three departments: painting with good pictures from the Leuven School (Quentin Massys: "Mourning over Christ"; Pieter Coecke van Aalst "Holy Family"; Michiel Coxie) and other paintings from different periods up to the present; sculpture including a 12th C. Madonna "Sedes Sapientiae", an outstanding alabaster relief (16th C.) and a section of a Passion relief from Antwerp (around 1525); finally craft work including glass painting from the 16-20th C., ceramics, faïences from Delft, porcelain from China and Japan, engravings, coins, gold work and textiles.