Worth a Detour
Groeningemuseum
Bruges's fine arts museum, with masterpieces by the Flemish Primitives: Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling and Hieronymus Bosch.
- Open
- Closed Mondays
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Dijver 12, 8000 BrugesDirections
- Getting There
- On the Dijver canal, a 5-minute walk from the Markt.
Why Go
The collection covers six centuries of Belgian art, but its heart is the 15th-century painters who worked in Bruges. Jan van Eyck's Madonna with Canon van der Paele and his portrait of his wife, Margaret, hang here, with Bosch's Last Judgment and Gerard David's grisly Judgment of Cambyses.
Nearby in Bruges
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