There are four categories of art museums in Belgium, classified by SIZE only, since QUALITY is present in them all :

1° the big ones :

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (ancient and modern) The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

2° the rather big ones :

The Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent The Museum of Modern Art, Liège The Middelheim Museum of Sculpture, Antwerp

3° the medium-sized :

Musée d'Ixelles (suburb of Brussels), Ixelles (Elsene) The Groeninge Museum, Bruges The Memling Museum, Bruges The Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MUHKA), Antwerp (very contemporary) The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Ghent (very contemporary)

4° the small and rather small ones, to which E-ArtSource.com is herewith drawing your attention:

Museum Mayer-Van den Bergh (superb Bruegel), Antwerp
Musée Félicien Rops, Namur
Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, Deinze
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (Flemish painters of the 20th Century)
Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai (in a Horta building)
Museum voor religieuze Kunst, Leuven (Louvain) (Dirk Bouts)
Paul Delvaux Museum, Sint-Idesbald
Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-aan-de-Leie

This list is by no means exhaustive. We would be happy to receive your suggestions by e-mail, concerning other small ART museums.

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