groeninge+museum

The Groeninge Museum, located in Bruges, is mostly known for its its beautiful holdings of early Dutch paintings. This collection has formed the museum’s most successful exhibition in recent years. The museum has some of the world’s finest paintings from Jan van Eyck through to Hieronymus Bosch and Jan Provoost. These paintings make up the whole museum.

The Groeninge Museum is located in the Groeninge district, on the former site of the Eekhoutabdij. It was designed by architect Joseph Viérin, and since 1930 it centralised Bruges’ collection of paintings, which had until then been mostly scattered. In 1995, a new addition was built by Jean-Baptiste Bethune, providing extra space. Viérin’s building underwent a complete remodeling in 2002. The Groeninge Museum has an overview of the history of Belgian art. In the museum you can see, along with other masterpieces, //The Virgin and Child with Canon Van der Paele// by Jan van Eyck and the //Moreel Triptych// by Hans Memling.

Everyone should at one point visit this beautiful museum because not only is it beautiful on the inside but has a very nice gorgeous old feel on the outside. These paintings each have their own story to tell, giving bits of information about the city itself through every stroke of the brush.