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Musée de la ville de Bruxelles

Brussels, Belgium

One of the ways in which the City Museum actively pursues its priority public-service missions, i.e. scientific study, conservation and enrichment of Brussels’ heritage and the showcasing of this heritage to best advantage for the benefit of the general public, is by staging temporary exhibitions in the main hall on the top floor, aimed at creating links between the past and our present. On the ground floor the City of Brussels Museum presents an overview of Brussels’ arts: sculptures and monuments from sites and places of interest in Brussels dating from the 13th to the 19th century, pewterware and earthenware, silverware and pieces of porcelain, not to mention tapestries from the 16th to the 18th century and altarpieces (15th to 16th century).

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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon

Dijon, France

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Musée provincial des art ancien du Namurois

Namur, Belgium

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Musée Unterlinden

Colmar, France

Housed in a former convent dating back to the 13th century, the Musée Unterlinden displays a remarkable group of paintings and sculptures from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It possesses one of the greatest works of Western art: the Isenheim Altarpiece, executed between 1512 and 1516 by Nicolaus of Haguenau and Grünewald. The museum’s collection of decorative art objects includes silver and gold treasures as well as an exceptional group of hunting and military weapons. Its archaeology section offers a nearly complete overview of the early development of human society, with objects from everyday life (Bergheim mosaic, 3rd century AD) or funerary contexts (gold jewellery from a princely sepulchre).

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Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Madrid, Spain

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Museo Lazaro Galdiano

Madrid, Spain

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Museo Nacional de Escultura

Valladolid, Spain

The Museum is a special place to learn about and enjoy sculpture, thanks to the originality of its art collections, which make the Museum one of the leading museums of its kind in Europe.
These collections are comprised of two main cores: religious works in polychrome wood (13th to 18th century) and artistic copies (19th and 20th century) from the now closed National Museum of Artistic Reproductions.
The Museum also aspires to understand and convey the personality of its main building, the Collegiate Church of San Gregorio, the sum of its architectural merit and its role in the history of Spanish religious culture.

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Museu Episcopal de Vic

Barcelona, Spain

The Episcopal Museum of Vic, founded in 1891, conserves a magnificent collection of medieval art with paintings and sculpture from the Catalan Romanesque and Gothic periods. The collections of precious metals, textile, foundry, glass and ceramics offer a complete journey through the history of liturgical and decorative art in Catalonia.

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Museu Frederic Marès

Barcelona, Spain

The Museu Frederic Marès is a unique collecting museum that preserves the collections assembled by its founder, sculptor Frederic Marès (1893-1991), which came to form part of the patrimony of the city of Barcelona through his donation in 1946. Two years later, this museum was inaugurated in a part of the old Royal Palace of the Counts of Barcelona in the heart of the Gothic Quarter. Its original Verger or courtyard garden, still remains intact.
Frederic Marès turned sculpture into something beyond his artistic calling. Throughout his lifetime he amassed an extensive Hispanic sculpture collectionwhich ranged from the ancient world until the 19th century, in which religious polychromed carvings predominated. This now makes up the most uniform section of the museum. Marès also donated part of his own sculptural oeuvre, which is on display in his Library-study.

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Museu Nacional d'art de Catalunya

Barcelona, Spain

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya is located in the Palau Nacional of Montjuïc, constructed for the International Exposition of 1929. In 1934 it opened its doors as the Museu d'Art de Catalunya, bringing together the medieval collection. Subsequently, in 1995, then as the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, the new rooms of Romanesque art were inaugurated, and in a successive way the public presentation of the collection was extended, a process that ended in 2004 with the integration of modern art.

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