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From 05/10/2011 to 15/01/2012, The Kunsthistorisches Museum will lend an outstanding selection of 54 top works to the Groeninge museum in Bruges, all dating from the 15th and 16th centuries and all originating from the Southern Netherlands. Their artistic merit is unparalleled. For a period of three months paintings by Jan van Eyck, Hugo van der Goes, Hans Memling, Gerard David, Michiel Sittow, Juan de Flandes, Jan Gossaert, Joos van Cleve, Joachim Patinir, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and other masters will supplement the already impressive collection of the Groeninge Museum in Bruges.

The Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna possesses one of the most important collections of old masters in the world. These great works of art were gradually collected through the centuries by the archdukes of Austria and the later emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. Following the marriage in 1477 between Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian of Austria there were close links between the ruling house of Habsburg and the Low Countries, a situation which continued until the end of the Ancien Regime in 1789.

Video report of the opening day: http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/mediatheek_en/1.1125621

Groeningemuseum

open every day from 9:30 to 17:00 | closed on Mondays

Tickets: 8€ (individual), 6€ (discount 65+, groups(>15pers)), 1€ (youngster < 26yr)

more info: http://www.imperialtreasures.be/

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Together with my colleague of fietsroute.org (Belgian Cyclist-site), I created an ‘In Bruges’-walk. It’s a 6 km (3,7 mile) long walk in the historic centre of Bruges along the main filmlocations used in the movie ‘In Bruges’.

You can find the map over here: Bruges-movie-walk

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click the links to view a 3D-view of the movie-locations:

• Scene on bench shot in front of the statue of ‘Jan Van Eyck’ on the ‘Van Eyck-plein’ (Van Eyck-square). Jan Van Eyck was one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century. You can visit the ‘Groeningemuseum’ in Bruges to admire some of his paintings.
  
  

• Two scenes shot in the ‘Koningin Astridpark’ (Queen Astridparc) between the pavilion and the little playground near the church:
  
  
  
  

Photograph rights movie pictures: Focus Features