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The Vleeshuis (Butcher's Hall, or literally Meat House) in Antwerp, Belgium, is a former guildhall. It is now a museum located between the Drie Hespenstraat, the Repenstraat and the Vleeshouwersstraat. The slope where the Drie Hespenstraat meets the Burchtgracht used to be known as the Bloedberg or Blood Mountain.
Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, established in the United Kingdom, was the producer of LEMCO brand Liebig's Extract of Meat and the originator of Oxo meat extracts and Oxo beef stock cubes. It was named after Justus Freiherr von Liebig , the 19th-century German organic chemist who developed and promoted a method for industrial production of ...
Joachim Beuckelaer (c. 1533 – c. 1570/4) was a Flemish painter specialising in market and kitchen scenes with elaborate displays of food and household equipment. [1] His development of the genre of market and kitchen scenes was influential on the development of still life art in Northern Europe as well as Italy and Spain.
Meathouse is a term for an outbuilding which preserves meat cured with salt, while if meat is cured by smoke would be called a smokehouse. It may also refer to: Meathouse, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States; Meathouse Fork, a river in West Virginia, United States; Meat market, a marketplace where meat is sold
In 1998 the Antwerp city council decided to build the museum at the Hanzestedenplaats. On 14 September 2006 the first brick of the building was laid. In 2010 museum objects arrived from various other museums like the Ethnographic Museum and the Maritime Museum, which both ceased to exist. The museum opened for the public on 17 May 2011.
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After the latter left in 1660, the house was sold. [2] [3] At the Brussels International 1910 World's Fair there was a full-size reconstruction of the Rubens house, built by the architect Henri Blomme. The reconstruction was a romantic interpretation of what the building used to be, full of ornaments, but it promoted the idea to save the building.
Antwerp, Belgium Coordinates: 51°13′10.8″N 4°25′2.7″E / 51.219667°N 4.417417°E / 51.219667; 4. The Franklin Rooseveltplaats (English: Franklin Roosevelt Square ) is a large square in the city of Antwerp , Belgium , placed at the crossing of the Leien and Turnhoutsebaan , and within walking distance of the Koningin ...