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Gruuthuse Museum

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Location: Brugge, Bruges, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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Rogier Van Bunnik 🇳🇱

November 6, 2022

After a thorough restoration, the city palace of the lords of Gruuthuse is an absolute eye-catcher. The facades look radiant. Renewed rooms, a new museum concept and special collection items are waiting to be rediscovered.

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September 11, 2023

A clear recommendation when visiting Bruges. Bring a little time, there is really a lot to see.

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Stephan N

May 1, 2024

It was 1425 when John IV of Gruuthuse began building a mansion on the Dijver Canal. The Gruuthuse family earned their money with grut (a type of herbal mixture). In the Middle Ages, grut was a component of beer. Everyone drank beer - as a result, the family had a lot of money and thus a lot of influence in Burgundian Bruges.
BRUGES, FLANDERS, JANETT SCHINDLER, CULTURE
THE GRUUTHUSE MUSEUM - THREE CENTURIES OF BRUGES
View of the Gruuthuse Museum and the Cathedral
by Janett Schindler

Bruges offers many exciting places to discover. More than 30 churches (around half of them in the old town), numerous museums, art exhibitions and impressive squares entice many tourists to linger. It was not just "See Bruges and die" that attracted numerous guests to the city in Flanders. The combination of pretty old houses and attractive canals is simply worth seeing.

Bruges has had another highlight since May 2019.
Centrally located, you can experience a journey back in time to the Middle Ages in Bruges. The Gruuthuse Museum - I can reveal this in advance - not only leaves art fans and time travelers like me enthusiastic.

View from the Gruuthuse Museum, © Janett Schindler
The Gruuthuse Museum was closed for around 5 years, around 9 million were invested in the redesign and the reopening of the Gruuthuse family's city palace was celebrated for a whole week in May.

Let's travel back in time.
It was 1425 when John IV of Gruuthuse began building a mansion on the Dijver Canal. The Gruuthuse family earned their money with grut (a kind of herbal mixture). Grut was a component of beer in the Middle Ages. Everyone drank it - as a result, the family had a lot of money and therefore a lot of influence in Burgundian Bruges.

Map of Bruges, 1546 – 1600, Anonymous master, Image © Janett Schindler
Even after Grut was no longer used, the family was allowed to levy taxes on beer. This is why the family collected valuable works of art, tapestries and historical documents over several centuries. The city palace has served as a museum since 1888. The last extensive restoration took place in recent years – I think it was worth it!
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flandern-blog.de/gruuthusemuseum-bruegge

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