The museum, which has preserved its original atmosphere, is dedicated to painter, sculptor and writer Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865), a somewhat controversial artistic figure of the Belgian Romantic movement. Wiertz loved the spectacular, painting giant canvasses to indulge his thirst for the excessive, like the more than 8 metres long "Greeks and Trojans fighting over the body of Patroclus". His most famous painting is probably "Two Girls" ("La Belle Rosine"), in which a young woman faces a skeleton, reflecting the artist's fascination with death and the fragility of human life.
Due to Covid-19, the museum is temporarily closed.