All ancient art museums to visit in Belgium

Step back in time with the fascinating collections of 16 ancient art museums in Belgium. Marvel at artifacts, sculptures, and relics from ancient civilizations that tell the story of human history.

Do you have a fascination with ancient history and art? These are the top ancient art museums in Belgium:

  1. Liberty of Bruges1

    Liberty of Bruges

     Bruges
    The Liberty of Bruges is a country house from 1726 to 1795 where the seat of the government of the ‘Brugse Vrije’ was. It was built on the place where the second residence of the Count was situated. Since the late 18th century to 1984, the court was housed here. Now the City Archives have found a ho
  2. Musée Le Grand Curtius2

    Musée Le Grand Curtius

     Liège
    The Curtius Museum (Musée Le Grand Curtius) is a museum of archaeology and decorative arts. The building that houses the museum was a private mansion for Jean Curtius, a Belgian manufacturer who provided gunpowder to the Spanish army. It was built somewhere between 1597 and 1610 in the typical regio
  3. ABBY3

    ABBY

     Kortrijk
    Abby Kortrijk is a playful, accessible and multi-voiced museum of visual arts. Together with a diverse network of organisations, artists and communities, and with art as a universal language, we explore what defines and connects us as human beings across borders, generations and cultures.
  4. Art & History Museum4

    Art & History Museum

     Brussels
    The Jubilee Park Museum is located in the Jubilee Park. The museum displays thousands of historical objects and works of art. The collection consists of Belgian archaeological objects and finds from the Near East, Iran, Egypt, China, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas and Classical Antiquity
  5. Stedelijk Museum Hoogstraten5

    Stedelijk Museum Hoogstraten

     Hoogstraten
    The Stedelijk Museum Hoogstraten is located in the Beguinage. The museum is dedicated to the heritage of Hoogstraten with a focus on city history and prehistory. The museum provides an overview of the city's history from 1210 to the present. The archaeological site 'Meirberg' is an important Stone A
  6. City Hall of Brussels6

    City Hall of Brussels

     Brussels
    Immerse yourself in the heart of the Brussels City Hall and let yourself be transported back through the centuries thanks to an interactive experience. As soon as you arrive on the magnificent Grand-Place, you'll be captivated by the imposing silhouette of this emblematic building, a veritable jewel
  7. Openluchtmuseum Bachten De Kupe7

    Openluchtmuseum Bachten De Kupe

     Izenberge
    Open Air Museum Bachten De Kupe is a reconstructed farming village from the Westhoek. The museum consists of 46 authentic buildings and thousands of objects that revive the life of the past. A Houtland farmstead with all the trimmings is part of it: the house, the carriage house, the stables, a baki
  8. Royal Theater Toone8

    Royal Theater Toone

     Brussels
    The Maison de Toone is simultaneously a typical estaminet with its Spanish pink brick walls, blackened beams and tiled floor, and a puppet theatre in the attic, with its wooden benches, festooned, multicoloured cushions nailed into the raw wood planks, a workshop that manufactures puppets, a library
  9. Musée Oldmasters Museum9

    Musée Oldmasters Museum

     Brussels
    The Musée Oldmasters Museum (Museum of Ancient Art) displays works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rubens and Jordaens, among others. It also displays works by Flemish primitives and the other artists of the Southern Netherlands.
  10. Museum Hof van Busleyden10

    Museum Hof van Busleyden

     Mechelen
    The Court of Busleyden is one of the buildings in Mechelen that dates back to the early 16th century. It was commissioned by Hieronymus of Busleyden, a member of the Great Council. Jeroen van Busleyden was also the founder of the Collegium Trilingue at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, breeding gr
  11. Käthe Kollwitz Museum11

    Käthe Kollwitz Museum

     Koekelare
    In the museum, you meet the German artist Käthe Kollwitz, her son Peter and her work. In the Käthe Kollwitz Museum you learn more about Peter. This young German World War I frontlinesoldier gets killed on the day of his arrival in Diksmuide. To process her grief, his mother Käthe makes two statue
  12. Belfius Art Collection12

    Belfius Art Collection

     Brussels
    The Belfius Collection is a Belgian art collection of the Belgian bank Belfius.It is an art collection of more than 4,500 works, the largest private collection in the country. The collection includes Flemish masters from the 16th and 17th centuries, modern art from 1860 to 1960, and art from 1960 to
  13. Online discount!Belgian Beer World13

    Belgian Beer World

     Brussels
    A new way to experience Belgian Beer! Welcome to Belgian Beer World, the museum of Beer in residence at the magnificent Brussels Stock Exchange building. Belgium has a great beer brewing tradition that, thankfully for us, has been handed down through generations. It even has UNESCO world heritag
  14. Musea Hunnegem14

    Musea Hunnegem

     Geraardsbergen
    On the Hunnegem site, several museums are housed; The Museum Huge is housed in Hunnegem's Romanesque church and in the adjacent neo-Gothic Pax Hall. Besides the genesis of the town and the monastic community, specific themes are highlighted; monastic life, Marian devotion, Benedict, education, the
  15. Historium Brugge15

    Historium Brugge

     Bruges
    Travel back in time in Bruges. Experience in various ways how lively Bruges was during the Golden Age. Start your visit with an impressive virtual flight along the medieval architecture in the Historium Virtual Reality. Continue your time travel in the Historium Story. Follow the fascinating story o
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    Cultuurhuis De Scharbiellie

     De Panne
    Culture House The Scharbiellie is displaying Oceanic art from the collection of honorary solicitor Paul Simpelaere.