The Rubens hall
Huge canvases in restored gold-and-red rooms.
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Start on the upper floor with the Old Masters (the Flemish Primitives and Rubens — the essential), then descend the white staircase to modernity (Ensor and Magritte), and finish at the café. The museum's route is clear. Two hours for essentials, four for the art lover. Combine it with the Zuid: FOMU, MoMu and its restaurants.
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Antwerp's Royal Museum of Fine Arts reopened in 2022 after eleven years of restoration and expansion, becoming Flanders' foremost art museum: a grand neoclassical palace of 1890 in the Zuid (South) district with high gold-and-red rooms restored to splendour, and inside it an entirely new "white museum" dug into the inner courtyards with soaring white halls for modern art — two museums in one. The collection is first-rate: the Flemish Primitives (Van Eyck, Memling, Van der Weyden), the Rubens hall with his huge canvases, Van Dyck and Jordaens, Titian and Fouquet, then the world's largest collection of James Ensor (Belgian art's most famous eccentric), Magritte and Flemish Expressionism. The ascent from the Old Masters to modernity via the white staircase is an architectural experience in itself. In the elegant Zuid district south of the centre (tram or 20 minutes on foot) — with the FOMU, MoMu and the district's cafés. A half-day for the art lover.
Huge canvases in restored gold-and-red rooms.
Soaring new halls dug into the courtyards for modernism.
Masks and skeletons in his largest collection worldwide.
Leopold de Waelplaats 1, 2000 Antwerp