Museum Mayer van den Bergh

Museum Mayer van den Bergh: Permanent collection

During his short life, Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (1858-1901) collected some 3,000 works, among which Mad Meg (Dulle Griet) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. After his sudden death in 1901, his mother Henriette was left with her son’s unfulfilled dream: to open a museum devoted to his breath-taking collection. When you visit the Museum Mayer van den Bergh today you will enter a world full of paintings, altarpieces, sculptures, manuscripts and tapestries. Each one displayed in an atmospheric interior, full of delicate little art treasures.