Oostende

	The James Ensor House This is the house where James Ensor spent most of his productive years, inherited from his uncle who had a shell shop there. After a restoration in the 1960's the now museum was opened to the public. Reproductions of Ensor's paintings can be seen here, but there are no works by James Ensor.
	The Provincial Museum of Modern Art The museum is housed in an old department store built by Gaston Eysselinck, in a style reminiscent of Le Corbusier. By 1967 the museum possessed around 120 pieces, but currently consists of over 2000. Artists that are represented here include: Prosper de Troyer, Victor Servranckx, Jean Milo, Edgard Tytgat, Jean Brusselmans, Leon Spilliaert, Jozef Peeters, Rene Magritte ('Le Forgeron' from 1920), expressionists Albert Servaes, Georges Minne, Frits Van den Berghe, Gustaaf De Smet and Constant Permeke. More recent artistic developments such asgeometrical art, construtivism, New Painting, Hyperrealism, Pop Art, etc are also represented.
	The Museum of Fine Arts One of the founders of the museum was Henri-Louis Permeke father of the Belgian expressionist painter Constant Permeke). About 400 pieces of work were destroyed by fire in 1940, but a new collection was acquired after the end of WWII that focused on painters from Oostende icluding James Ensor, Constant Permeke, Leon Spilliaert and Jan de Clerck. Exhibits in the museum are: James Ensor paintings Leon Spilliaert paintings Belgian art from the Romantic movement until the Postimpressionist movement Important 19th and 20th century artists from Oostende Contemporary art from different European countries