Museum Mayer van den Bergh - Antwerp - Belgium - Art Museums on Waymarking.com

he major works are from the Gothic and Renaissance period in the Netherlands and Belgium, including paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, born in 1858, collected art for most of his life, making his most expensive and important additions between 1897 and his death in 1901. He was especially interested in art from the 14th to sixteenth century, while his contemporaries considered the Gothic and Renaissance art dated. This fact enabled him to create a collection of 1.000 pieces of mostly Northern Renaissance art. After his death, his mother Henriette Mayer van den Bergh built a neo-gothic house in the banking district of Antwerp between 1901 and 1904, as a museum for the expansive art collection.

Name: Museum Mayer van den Bergh Location: Lange Gasthuisstraat 19, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium Phone Number: +32 3 338 81 88 Web Site: [Web Link] Agency/Ownership: Public Hours of operation: The Mayer van den Bergh Museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Last entry at 4 p.m. Admission Fee: 10 Gift Shop: yes Cafe/Restaurant: no

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