Local museums in Dendermonde

The Folklore and Beguinage Museum is located in the 1288 beguinage of Dendermonde. The museum is dedicated to everyday life of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: household, living, work, leisure. The museum includes three old houses: a small dwelling converted into a beguinage, the infirmary an

The Zwijveke Museum is housed in outbuildings of the former Cistercian Abbey of Zwijveke. The museum is devoted to local history from the French period to the present and displays cultural-historical objects from the 19th and 20th centuries. Various events and figures, politics and culture, justice

Want to learn more about the history of the city of Dendermonde? Then the meat house museum is a must. In the attic you stand eye to eye with the oldest inhabitant of the city: a real mammoth. Regional finds from prehistoric times can also be found here. The second floor provides a fascinating overv

In the Town Hall in Dendermonde, the visitor is introduced to the interior and the numerous paintings. Most of the paintings on display belong to the 'Dendermonde School', an art movement whose painters mainly practiced landscape painting. Exceptions are some portraits and history paintings by Frans

The Maritime Museum in Baasrode is located in the home of the former shipyard owner in Baasrode, Van Damme. In the 15th century, an important shipbuilding industry developed in Baasrode. In the 19th century, shipbuilding reached its peak there and in 1986 the shipyard closed. The museum tells the st