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Category: Museums - Antwerp Attractions & Activities
Address: Lange Gasthuisstraat 19, Antwerp
Mayer van den Bergh, a 19th-century art connoisseur with an impeccable eye for quality, collected more than 4,000 works during his lifetime. His treasures include bronze figures, tapestries, 12th-century sculpture, ornate silverware, and most famously, "Mad Meg," Pieter Brueghel the Elder's greatest painting. After...
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
Category: Museums - Antwerp Attractions & Activities
Address: Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerp
Closed for renovations until September 2009. "Avant-garde" is the term most often used to describe this museum's setting and its collection. The Museum of Contemporary Art has been in operation in a former storage silo and warehouse since 1987. Roughly 43,000 square feet of exhibit space is dedicated to works in a...
Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal (Cathedral of Our Lady)
Category: Antwerp Attractions & Activities
Address: Handschoenmarkt, Antwerp
The largest church in the Low Countries is a wonderful example of Brabant Gothic architecture (a more ornate, exuberant variation). By most counts it took 168 years from 1352 until 1520 to complete the entire structure, which was begun as a modest chapel dedicated to the Virgin. The cathedral has an impressive...
Category: Museums - Antwerp Attractions & Activities
Address: Vrijdagmarkt 22, Antwerp
This museum, both a home and a shop, validates the important place the Plantin family holds in the history of printing. In fact, the facility's priceless archives and printing presses hold world heritage status. In the late 1500s, Christoffle Plantin's company was incredibly successful, and in later years, its status...
Category: Antwerp Attractions & Activities
Address: Wapper 9-11, Antwerp
No trip to Antwerp would be complete without a visit to the home and studio of the city's most famous native son. Pieter Paul Rubens built this mansion in 1610 when he was 33 years old. Today, it has been restored to approximate its appearance during Rubens' most prolific period in the first half of the 17th century....
Category: Antwerp Attractions & Activities
Address: Lange Nieuwstraat 73, Antwerp
This lavish Gothic church adorned with marble and great art boasts seven chapels, including the Rubens Chapel where the great master rests. His tomb lies behind the church's main altar (there are 23 total) and beneath the burial painting that he executed late in life: "Our Lady Surrounded by Saints." Close...
Category: Antwerp Attractions & Activities
Address: Sint Paulusstraat 20, Antwerp
This lovely Late Gothic church was built in 1530 for the Dominican order. Subjected to various disasters over the centuries, it was gutted by fire in 1968, and several locals risked their lives to save the masterpieces inside. A free English-language tour leads visitors through the airy interior and points out...
Category: Antwerp Attractions & Activities
Address: Grote Markt, Antwerp
Antwerp's city hall dates to the 16th century and features many beautiful works of art and ornamentation. However, the building is still used by the mayor and city council, so your best bet for a free-access tour is on the weekend. The original Italian Renaissance-style structure was burned down by the Spanish and...
Category: Museums - Antwerp Attractions & Activities
Address: Vleeshouwersstraat 38-40, Antwerp
Antwerp's oldest public building is the Butcher's Hall, whose layered red-brick and stone construction recalls the marbled appearance of a piece of meat. Originally, the guild hall was the city's only sanctioned site for meat sales, and it included a chapel, banquet hall, kitchen and meeting room. Today, the building...
