The Broel Museum is an art museum located in Kortrijk

Kortrijk

Kortrijk ; , ; ) is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province West Flanders...

, Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

. The building is a converted 18th-century neoclassical

Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing...

 mansion, located at 6 Broelkaai.

Exhibits

The main focus of the museum is artists from the area, or who are currently living in Kortijk, including; Roelant Savery

Roelant Savery

Roelant Savery , was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter.-Life:Savery was born in Kortrijk...

, Karel van Mander, Kerstiaen De Keuninck, Louis Pierre Verwee, Evariste Carpentier, Louis Robbe, Edward Woutermaertens, Joos Vincent de Vos

Joos Vincent de Vos

Joos Vincent de Vos was a Belgian artist who specialized in paintings of animals.Vincent de Vos was born in Kortrijk, Belgium in 1829 to father Jan Eugene Vos a miller, and mother Marie Anne Verhaeghe. He studied at the Kortrijk Academy under religious artist Philip De White, and Edward...

with a prominence of art from the 16th and 19th centuries.