Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Céramique

The Fine Arts and Ceramics Museum, founded by Jean-Simon Renier in 1884 in the former "New Hospital" (dating from 1661), boasts one of the finest collections of ceramics in Belgium thanks to the amount, quality and diversity of its specimens.Various Chinese export porcelain and East India Company collections included items imported to Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, before the invention of European hard porcelain in Meissen (Saxony).Earthenware and stoneware are well represented by the Delft bleu (vases or dishes of all sizes) and multi-coloured Delft (jugs, animals and flowers).To complete this artistic journey, visitors are immersed in a different atmosphere: one of European paintings and modern canvases.