Anderlecht Convent
The Anderlecht Convent Museum contains a valuable collection of popular art and religious history. The entrance of Anderlecht's Beguine convent permits visitors into an intimate place which once offered rooms to only eight Beguines. Erected in 1252, the edifice is overlooking an internal courtyard closed by two ranges of houses and a well.
The ground floor of the dwelling has several rooms packed with furniture belonging to the Beguines, a chapel and an 18th-century candy store. The exhibits upstairs include rural and social testimonies of life in
Anderlecht. The museum also offers archeological finds of Roman and Frankish eras. The last floor displays paintings and engravings produced during the building of the Charleroi Canal, which marked the rise of the Industrial Revolution in the area.
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