Best places: Museums in Ostend, Belgium

Preserved 18th-century fisherman's cottage museum, with exhibits & a bar serving regional products.

Simple rooms with historical decor in a WWI-era guesthouse featuring a lounge & a garden.

Family-run brewery with guided tours, a museum showcasing old brewing techniques plus dining areas.

👍👍 Cracking little bar does nice light lunch. They have a church attached that has been transformed into a WW1 museum. Packed full of fantastic artifacts. They have so much stuff in there it's well worth a visit. Be warned on Tuesday only open to organised tours.

City hall built in 1376 with a grand Gothic interior, plus a museum dedicated to art & area history.

Ancient palace museum housing historic furniture, sculpture & tapestries, with an audio guide.

Extensive collections of Flemish primitive artworks, 18th & 19th-century works & modern pieces.

Neoclassical museum building housing collections of European art dating back to the 1350s.

👍👍 Unique, grand city palace with Chinese salon where Marie Antoinette and many other dignitaries stayed. Free entrance. Your free contribution is appreciated. Visit this together with the Arnold Vander Haegen House, across the street.

House where painter James Ensor lived for 32 years, with period artifacts & exhibits of his work.

Huge Gothic cloth market from 1304, reconstructed after its destruction in WWI, with 70m belfry.

Museum where visitors learn about beer history, sample ingredients & taste brews of varied styles.

👍👍 Ghent University Museum is a must see in the city. It has various exhibitions related to every aspect of science inside and a very vast botanical garden outside.

In a tranquil setting, daily life is recreated with objects from the 19th & early 20th centuries.

84m iron tower in the shape of a cross, a WW1 memorial housing exhibits on the Belgian-German front.

Works by Picasso, Miró, Chagall & other modern artists exhibited inside a stately former hospital.

Slick, glass-fronted museum with multimedia exhibits on Ghent's development, plus a huge floor map.

👍👍 All I can say here is, thank you, thank you, thank you, apart from the fact that the owner and his wife speak German, which they do very well, we got a really great introduction and were able to indulge in some nostalgic memories Top

Windmill grinding grain in its original location since 1770, open to visitors Jun–Sep.

👍👍 A magnificent, modern museum. I spent more than two and a half hours there. Collections superbly showcased. Old paintings, an unexpected concrete frame, a photo corner set up in the 19th century where you can dress up "like in the old days" and have your photo taken :) The history of Ypres, from eve...