Snijders & Rockoxhuis

Snijders & Rockoxhuis brings two neighbouring historic townhouses together as a museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Renaissance and Baroque details surround rooms arranged like a seventeenth-century collector’s home. An inner herb garden follows a layout inspired by Italian palazzi.

Frans Snyders and Nicolaas Rockox once lived beside each other in these houses. Rockox rebuilt several properties around 1603, creating the architectural setting you see today. Since 2018, the connected houses have presented Flemish art from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Paintings hang salon-style beside engravings, sculptures, textiles, stained glass, silverwork, marble, books, and coral. Works by Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck, Snyders, Massijs, and other Flemish artists fill the collection.

The cleyne salette retains its old name and recalls where Rockox received guests. Art cabinets display coins, shells, stones, letters, and jewellery, reflecting Antwerp’s historic furniture trade.