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Top 5 Art Museums in Ghent, Flanders
Belgium's fourth-largest - and most beautiful - city is home to a quarter of a million people and a flourishing flower export trade. An important port, Ghent's city center is a pedestrian area that is like a museum to early Flemish architecture and a testament to the city's medieval might. Impressive Gothic sites, such as dramatic St. Bavo's Cathedral and the Castle of the Counts, inspire awe. The works of Flemish masters are housed in the distinguished Museum voor Schone Kunst.
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1. Museum Voor Schone Kunsten
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4.5 based on 463 reviews
At the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), you can discover more than 400 masterpieces of European art from the Middle Ages to the present day. In our iconic building, Old Masters such as Bosch and Rubens hang alongside Impressionists, Surrealists and Modernists. With names like Ensor, Magritte and Permeke, Belgian art is well represented. And you can now also witness the live restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece, behind the glass wall of the restoration room. The museum shop and restaurant, a diverse programme with room for contemporary art and our location in the Citadel park all turn the museum into a vibrant place where you can easily pass a few hours surrounded by beauty.
Reviewed By Lepand - Ra'anana, Israel
A great museum with a very large collection of primarily Flemish, together with some French paintings from the Middle Ages till the 20th century. Lots of Rubens. The presentation is very well done. Lots of explanations that are comfortable to read and in English also. This is how a museum should show its works. IN addition, on week days you can see certain panels of Adoration of the Lamb being restored by specialists behind a glass window. There is a display station with all sorts of information on it. I understand that on weekends the panels are displayed. Not every museum can be the Louvre or the Met but there are lots of good paintings here and we enjoyed it very much.
2. Design Museum Gent
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4.0 based on 581 reviews
Design Museum Gent makes you aware of the big impact that design has on the quality of your daily life.
Reviewed By laMettrie - Lincoln, United Kingdom
The museum has some really excellent exhibits, especially 20th century design, really well displayed.
3. S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent
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3.5 based on 215 reviews
Reviewed By ejfraser - Solihull, United Kingdom
If you like Modern art then this is a must it's situauted in the Citadel Park just opposite the Museum of Fine Art. The exhibit s could not be further apart!
4. VLASK Gallery
When you enter the Ghent Vlask Gallery and look around you, you find yourself in a wonderful garden, in which numerous colors compete against each other, strange and graceful shapes flourish and numerous materials attract attention. In addition to home-grown artists who often have their own expressive vision, the gallery presents artists from numerous European countries.
5. Zebrastraat
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1.0 based on 1 reviews
