Snijders&Rockoxhuis

A gem! Looks small, but I visit often and always find a treasure I haven’t seen before. iPad that you can point gives you details on the artwork, making the visit inspiring and educational

Exquisite museum comprising 2 adjacent palatial homes from the 1600's. The art work is stellar - lots of Rubens, Bruegels etc - all of whom were friends/contemporaries of the two homeowners. Staff is very friendly and informative. This is a good museum to see in conjunction with the Plantin-Moretus museum - they cover the same time period and both were private homes.

I'm usually not a big museum fan but this one was different: the interior architecture is great, the interactive app on the iPad that they give you for the tour is really well done and useful, not crap like usually when they tell you useless stuff about the food that the painter ate the day he started this painting. The woman at the entrance is really kind and helpful. The garden is small but cute. You can spend between 30 minutes and two hours in this museum.

An absolutely delightful museum. It was very quiet when we visited, on a Tuesday, which was our luck. Wonderful masterpieces, beautifully restored and displayed in clutter free spaces. Each room has comfortable stools. The gallery provides, at no extra cost, a tablet that is simple to use and gives you information on almost all the artwork in the gallery. Gallery staff are approachable and a font of extra knowledge.

It is so nice to see so many old paintings and other forms of art in a house what used to be somebody’s home once centuries ago. Beautiful setting, nice atmosphere (seeing youngsters in art classes analyzing the paintings). Definitely worthwhile the visit!

Snijders & Rockoxhuis is a hidden gem in Antwerp! While it might get overlooked for the bigger museums, it's absolutely worth a visit. The collection of works by Snijders and Rockox is truly amazing and breathtaking to see in person. My one frustration, however, is the lack of information tags for the paintings. You have to use a cumbersome iPad-like guide to get any details, which means you're constantly looking at a screen instead of the art itself. It really takes away from the experience—I'm here to see the art, not stare at a screen! I ended up putting the device back and just enjoying the art without the context, which was a shame.

Best museum experience! (that I've ever had globally). In addition to some audio clips, the museum gives an iPad which provides illuminating and interesting information about every single piece of art they have (vs other house museums that barely provide info). The art is beautiful! Plenty of comfy places to sit, absorb and enjoy. The guards are quiet which makes for better enjoyment and they are knowledgeable about the paintings. Beautiful music playing throughout at a non-disruptive volume. Very warmly recommend.

This museum is a wonderful gem! I was so impressed by how polished and unique the experience was. I found the whole experience to be very charming and interesting. My #1 recommendation would be to take the audio guide. The staff made it seem like it was a take it or leave it option that gave you more general information about the museum and its founders than any specific artifacts -which is true. That being said, I found the audio tour so charming. The audio is a mock guide made to mimic the owners of the house. Normally I find that type of guide to be annoying or inaccurate in some way but I thought it was very witty and well done. It seemed like the audio guide captured the personalities and relationships of the owners very well. I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone but I personally felt it made my experience really fun. Ticket price is very reasonable (esp for students) and the entire museum can be done in 45 mins to 1.5 hours. The house and its little courtyard are beautiful and and the museum gives you a sense of what Antwerp must have been like during the Seventeenth century. The paintings and artifacts are very interesting and worth seeing. The museum was not very crowded on the mid afternoon weekday that I visited. The coatroom lockers are free!! The staff is very pleasant and helpful. The front desk man/security gave me a very thorough guide on how to use the Ipad/navigate the museum. I also sneezed multiple times while working and security in each room always said bless you and were very friendly and helpful with directions. The museum does not have information plaques for the artifacts and uses Ipads instead. I was skeptical about this system when I was reading reviews as I thought it may be distracting but I was shocked by how much I enjoyed it and how easy the museum made it. They have by far the best museum exploration software i've ever seen -far better than any audio guide or tablet, I was very pleasantly surprised and impressed. The Ipad is set to camera and automatically recognizes when you are in a new room and begins the audio guide as you walk in. It also recognizes paintings when you hold the camera up to them and tells you their details and blurbs. Some of the bigger paintings even have analysis points drawn onto the canvas via the Ipad that you can click and learn more about. It is very intuitive. There are also some very well curated and designed interactive displays and activities. Some of the best I have ever done in any museum. The Bruegel display is especially fun. Highly highly educational and entertaining, I recommend it. The museum displays were well organized and curated, I truly was so impressed by how polished and well designed this smaller museum was. The room upstairs with the music is beautiful and very nice to see. There are not any extremely famous pieces but definitely dont let that deter you -this museum tells an excellent and interesting story that is worth a look. The audio guide and Ipad give more general Flemish art history background as well. There are a few Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Van Dycks that are very cool and worth seeing. I really recommend this museum, definitely give it a look if you have some free time and want to learn more about seventeenth century Antwerp and its artists/collectors culture.

What a lovely house museum! The historic details that have been preserved here are amazing and well worth checking out. The museum also is not that huge, so this is the sort of place that feels memorable and special, yet you will not need to be there for hours to see everything. Definitely worth visiting on a trip to Antwerp!

Lots of paintings depicting dead, gutted, bloody animals either getting ready to be eaten, butchered or cooked up. Not my taste but I can appreciate it was the popular theme of the times