Mercatormuseum

Very informative

As an avid collector of antique maps, a visit to this museum was long overdue. Located in the Zamanstraat (an ancestor of my wife), it is close by the market square and the train station. Pay parking ...

If you like maps...

If you like maps.... than you'll love this museum! Though on the smaller side, this museum has wonderful items on display. Mostly maps from various periods, but also globes, surveying equipment, ca...

All in Flemish

No explanations in English. Good but only if you read Flemish. Modern exhibitions but absence of English information takes most of the interest away. A few videos with English subtitles

Mercator tribute

Very interesting museum after Gerard Mercator whose globes and maps belongs to important collections all over the world. Masterpiece a globe and several original maps. Entry fee is 5 euros and opening...

For cartography lovers

This is a small museum, exiting of 2 parts, the part with the old maps and a modern part that was mostly empty when I visited. The first room of the old part were only, with just 1 exception, facsimil...