Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts)

Frommer's Review

Housed in this impressive neoclassical building is the KMSKA's collection of paintings by Flemish old masters that is second to none in the world. Should you be an admirer of the great Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and all his works, you've come to the right place here, in the city where he made his home and his fortune. Antwerp's finest museum houses a gallery of his finest works. The marble entrance hall has frescoes painted by Rubens and is alone just about worth the price of admission. Among them are more Rubens masterpieces in one place than anywhere else. To view them, pass through the ground-floor exhibitions of more-modern artists' canvases (including works by Ensor, Magritte, Permeke, and Delvaux) and ascend to the second floor, where you find Rubens, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Dirck Bouts, Hans Memling, the Brueghel family, Rembrandt, and Hals. All told, these walls hold paintings spanning 5 centuries.

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