About Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen and Baron Caroly
Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen en Baron Caroly Dutch for ‘City Museum Wuyts-Van Campen and Baron Caroly' is a fine arts museum located in the city centre of Lier, Belgium. The permanent exhibition offers an overview of mainly Flemish, Belgian and Dutch paintings from the 16th to the 20th century. In addition, the museum holds a collection of objets d'art. The museum takes its name from two legacies: the first by Jacob Jozef Wuyts made in 1887 and the second by Baron Georges Caroly made in 1935. The building which houses the museum originally dates from the second quarter of the 18th century and was remodelled after a design by city architect FH Cox in the period 1891-1892. The museum was officially inaugurated on 16 October 1892. A second hall was added in 1904-1905 after a design by M. Van Ockelyen. Further expansions took place in 1936-1946 after designs by C. Sol.
The museum buildings are executed in a neo-Gothic style. The address of the museum is Florent Van Cauwenberghstraat 14, Lier, Belgium. The permanent exhibition offers an overview of mainly Flemish, Dutch and Belgian paintings from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Noteworthy are a number of works by Flemish masters such as Frans Floris, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Peter Paul Rubens, Antony van Dyck, David Teniers the Younger and Frans Snyders, 18th and 19th century Neo-Classical and Romantic painters as well as modernists such as Floris Jespers and Edgard Tytgat.
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