Experts' Choice Award Museum Vleeshuis
What the experts agree on
This striking 15th-century guildhall with distinctive striped brick housed Antwerp's meat trade before becoming a sprawling museum covering decorative arts, archaeology, musical instruments, and coins across six centuries of the city's history.
“Antwerp's oldest remaining public building was once the only place in the city where meat could be sold.”
– Fodor's
Frommer's "Functions as a museum of archaeology, ceramics, arms, religious art, sculpture, musical instruments, coins, and medieval furnishings." Full review
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Llook for the striking The Spanish Fury, picturing Antwerp's darkest hour
Lonely Planet "Has a display of musical instruments and the machines that were used to make them." Full review
Michelin Guide 1 Star
"This imposing Gothic building constructed for the Butchers' corporation now houses the Decorative Arts, Archaeology and Numismatics Museum of Antwerp." Full review
Atlas Obscura "This former guildhall with a bacon-like exterior is now home to a museum covering 600 years of Antwerp's musical history. " Full review
