The sweet shop and pharmacy
Nineteenth-century shopfronts as they were.
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Not a priority โ the Groeninge, Sint-Jan and Gruuthuse matter more. But it is a pleasant stop on the quiet northern walk for families and lovers of old daily life, and entirely calm. If you hold the combined ticket, enter; otherwise the neighbouring windmills and the quarter itself are free.
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Bruges' Folklore Museum occupies a row of eight seventeenth-century "godshuizen" (charitable almshouses for the poor) in the quiet Sint-Anna quarter โ small white houses with red roofs around a garden, each refurnished as a scene of popular Bruges life between 1850 and 1950: a classroom, a pharmacy, a sweet shop, a cooper's workshop, a tailor's, a Flemish kitchen, a family living room. It is the other face of golden Bruges: the life of craftsmen, workers and children in intimate detail, without great paintings or princes. The visit ends at "De Zwarte Kat" (The Black Cat) โ the museum's traditional inn with ginger drinks and old-fashioned sweets, named after the museum's actual cat. Children can try old games in the garden. In the quiet north near the windmills โ a pleasant stop on the Sint-Anna walk for those who love old daily life.
Nineteenth-century shopfronts as they were.
The museum's traditional inn with ginger drinks.
Balstraat 43, 8000 Bruges