About the Museum
Dating back to the 12th century, the Sint-Janshospitaal (Old Saint John's Hospital) in Bruges is one of the oldest hospitals in the world. Once a shelter for the sick and the poor, the hospital is now a museum open to the public, boasting an extensive display of medical instruments and archives as well as six masterpieces by Flemish master Hans Memling. These are complemented by a collection of religious paintings and sculptures, silverwork, reliquaries and apothecary pots that reflect 800 years of the institution’s history.
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Collection Highlights
The anatomy lesson, 1679
Hans MemlingTriptyck of St. John the Baptis and St. John the Evangelist, 1479
Jan ProvoostDiptych with Jesus bearing the Cross and the portrait of a friar minor, 1522
Jacob van Oost the ElderMother and Child, 17th century
Hans MemlingUrsula shrine, 1482-1489
Hans MemlingSybilla Sambetha, 1480
Hans MemlingRight panel from Triptych from Adriaan Reins, 1480
Hans MemlingRight panel from diptych from Maarten van Nieuwenhove, 1487
