MUSEUM HOF VAN BUSLEYDEN

This Renaissance residence was built around 1500 by the architects Keldermans for the humanist Jérôme de Busleyden, a friend of Erasmus and Thomas More. Brick alternates with stone ornamentation, in the Flemish Renaissance tradition. The museum traces the history of the city and its arts (^17th-20th centuries). Among the collections is the Opsinjoorke mannequin, with its disgustingly ugly mask! Also on display are works by the great Malines sculptors of the ^16th and 17th^centuries , such as Luc Fayd'herbe. The painting collection includes Rubens' Christ on the Cross.