The Absolute Art Gallery is located on Dijver Street in the historic center of Brugge. The Gallery displays contemporary art by international artists. You can admire the work of artists, such as Carlos Mata, Corby, David Mach, Ronald Dupont, and many others.

The Arents House Museum is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Bruges. It houses a lace museum, a coach museum and a celebrated collection of works by British artist, Frank Brangwyn.
Arents House is a large 18th century mansion in Bruges with a picturesque garden and a coach house. It was owned by the aristocratic Arents family and was one of the most beautiful residences in the city.
The Coach House of the Arents House Museum has a collection of old sledges and carriages. The ground floor of the main house hosts a lace museum that displays bobbin, needlepoint and mixed lace. Most of the exhibits are from famous Flemish lace making institutions in Bruges, Flanders and Mechelen. There are also samples of lace from other countries, including France and Italy. Besides lace, the technique of lace making is portrayed in a series of paintings at the museum. The well known part of the Arents House Museum is the second floor with the famous Brangwyn collection on display. Many of the artist’s realistic paintings, depicting the hard life of dock and factory workers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are featured in the halls. Other works include watercolors, oil paintings and engravings, depicting scenes of the places visited by Brangwyn. Exhibits also include carpets, pottery and furniture designed or collected by the artist.

The Groeninge Museum is the municipal gallery of fine arts in Bruges. Displays at the facility represent six centuries of Flemish and Belgian art.
The museum occupies land that once belonged to the Eeckhout Abbey, located in the Groeninge district of Bruges. The building was constructed between 1929 and 1930 to display the city’s art collections, especially the world renowned works by the Flemish Primitives. Paintings from the 14th to the 20th centuries are on display here with a focus on artists who worked in Bruges.
The most popular exhibits at the museum are the works of the Flemish Primitives. This school of art flourished in the 15th century and consisted of artists from the Southern Netherlands. Most of them came from the Flemish towns of Bruges, Ypres and Ghent, while some celebrated ones, like Jan Van Eyck, came from Eyck in the Netherlands. The term ‘primitive’ relates to the fact that these artists were the first in the region to use new styles and techniques. The art gallery also has a section devoted to the works of baroque and renaissance painters like Jan Provoost, Cornelis van Cleve, Adriaan Key and Pieter Bruegel. Works by Bruges artists, who were influenced by the 19th century classicist style, and the Herbert Collection of Flemish expressionist paintings are also on display at the museum.

The Gruuthuse Museum is located next to the Church of our Lady in Bruges, and is dedicated to showing visitors the life led by aristocratic families in the city between the 15th and 19th centuries.
The museum is housed in a palace belonging to the Gruuthuse family. They were merchants who had the monopoly of selling Gruut, which was a mixture of spices required to brew beer in the middle ages. The city of Bruges acquired the building in 1955 and converted it into a museum with 22 large display halls. The Gruuthuse mansion and its courtyard both have appeared in the Hollywood film, ‘In Bruges’.
The Gruuthuse Museum is divided into many sections, each showing decorative objects used in aristocratic homes. The sculpture section consists of objects made of ivory, crucifixes and a polychrome bust of Emperor Charles V of Hapsburg. Other halls display early medieval Gothic furniture and carved woodwork from the 17th and 18th centuries, the kitchen of the mansion with metal pots and pans, silver tableware, an impressive collection of ceramic and porcelain from Brussels, Delft, Germany and France, a coin cabinet, lace and tapestry made in Bruges, and a small collection of musical instruments. The mansion also has a small private chapel that opens into the next door Church of our Lady.

The Archeology Museum of Bruges has unique interactive displays that not only show exhibits from excavations around the city but also gives an insight into the working of the science of archeology.
A row of ancient houses in Bruges were converted into the present Archeology Museum. A range of objects dating from the Stone Age to the 21st century are displayed here. The museum is unique and interesting because the reasoning behind the date of each object on display is detailed and visitors can understand how the archeologists came to their conclusions.
The motto of the Bruges Archeological Museum is, ‘Feel the past under your feet.’ Each object is described using a series of do and search tasks. It is divided into four sections, home, work, life and death. Visitors are encouraged to solve archeological mysteries through the interactive exhibits at the museum. Objects displayed include stone, pottery, glass, leather and tapestry found during archeological excavations in the area around the city. A series of murals adorn the walls and tell visitors the tale of the city from the distant past to the recent past. The Museum stays open all week except on Mondays from 9.30 am to 5.00 pm. It is closed for lunch between 12.30 and 1.30 pm.

Memling in Sint Jan is a museum located within the ancient St. Johns Hospital of Bruges, the oldest preserved hospital buildings in Europe. It dates back to the 13th century. The old hospital furniture and furnishings are carefully preserved and displayed in the museum within the old building. Visitors can see the preserved herb garden and apothecary, as it was in the ancient hospital, and the attic has one of the oldest roof truss systems in the world.
The St. John Hospital is adorned with paintings by the German-born 15th century artist, Hans Memling. He came to Bruges from Brussels to study art under Rogier van der Weyden in 1465 and stayed on to become one of the city’s most respected citizens. The painting at the entrance shows the hospital as it was in the 13th century, with rows of beds set into cubicles. The altar of the chapel has a three paneled altarpiece of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, which is regarded as Memling’s masterpiece. Three of his well known paintings - The Shrine of St Ursula, The Virgin with the Child and the Apple, and the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine - are found in the altar.

The Beguine’s House Museum is dedicated to showing visitors the lifestyle of the residents of the Beguinage in Bruges . The Beguinage has been declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.
Beguinages consisted of small houses where communities of women lived an almost religious life without taking religious vows. These communities were found in the low countries of Belgium and have been in existence since the 13th century. Many of the women were poor widows of men who did not return from the crusades. One of the houses was converted into a museum in the 17th century when the entire Beguinage was refurbished. From 1928, the Beguinage became a functioning Benedictine convent.
The Beguine House Museum preserves the house of these female communities exactly as it was from the 13th to the early 20th centuries. A popular part of the house is the kitchen with a Leuvense Stoof or stove. This unique stove made in Louvain near Brussels that was used by Belgians for cooking until after World War II. The kitchen has furniture and beautiful tiles and the typical pots and pans used by residents of these simple dwellings. The museum also has a beautifully preserved dining and bedroom. The living room has displays of 16th century paintings of renowned artists, Abraham Bloemaert and Jan Antoon Garemijn. Other interesting objects are lace making tools like a spinning wheel and bobbin lace cushions used by the industrious beguines in the past.

KR-line, Photo Art Gallery was opened in 2007 with a specific purpose, to bring to the world the ideas of contemporary photography. Each photo in this gallery has its own story, because every photographer is unique in his views and talent. The gallery promote young artists, local and foreign. This gallery is a small ray of modernity in the medieval city.

The Ghent Gate, also called the Gentpoort or Porte de Gand, is one of the four remaining medieval gates in Bruges. It was the point of entry for the Nazis when they attacked the city during World War II.
The Ghent Gate was designed by architect, Jan van Oudenaerde, in the 15th century. It served both as a fortification to protect the city as well as an entry point for merchants and traders into the city. At the time, it was surrounded by a wide moat and had a large drawbridge. Bruges was a major center of trade between the 12th and the 15th centuries, and this part of the city was one of the busiest. Recently, it has been declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.
The Ghent Gate consists of two large round yellow towers. The passage between the towers is covered by a pointed arch. There are staircases leading to the top of each of the towers. A statue of St. Adrian is found in the tabernacle above the passage which was placed there to protect the town from danger and disease. Two pedestrian passages were recently added through both the towers. The upper room has a large, well-preserved open fireplace that was once used by guards during winters. The Ghent Gate is a popular tourist attraction and is beautifully illuminated at night, making it a spectacular site for visitors.