Today we visited the churches, the chocolate museum, and the Groening Art Museum in Bruge. The churches were huge and full of amazing statues, paintings, and beautiful architecture. We saw some late 1800’s paintings of tapestries and learned the history of a family who sold a painting to the church to be buried near the alter.

The chocolate museum gave a very interesting look inside the history and making of chocolate. We watched a cool chocolate making demo and got to taste some chocolate from the museum.

The Groening Museum was my personal favorite part of the day… even though it was very short lived. There were many very detailed religious paintings and some large expressionist paintings. I was assigned lucky number 8 in the museum which was “Ontdekking Van De Tekenkunst” by Joseph Benoit Suvee. The piece is a depiction of what is known as the first ever drawing. A woman is outlining the shadow of her husbands face on the wall as she prepares to go off to war. The piece was large and dark. Their faces have a lot of emotion.