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The Diamantmuseum Bruges
Since Bruges
has an important place in the evolution of the diamond trade in
Belgium, it is only fitting that such a museum is established
here. It has been known that it was in Bruges that the art of
diamond polishing was invented in the 15th century when a local
goldsmith Lodewijk van Berquem invented a diamond polishing
wheel.
Museum Bruges offers
a unique view into the diamond world, normally inaccessible to the
public. A precious pearl in the Bruges' crown the press wrote
about the museum. The Diamond Museum Bruges displays a number of
unique objects: The interior of the imaginary workshop of Lodewijk
van Berquem; a rare replica of the crown of Margaret of York,
handmade in Bruges; samples of Bruges' all important imports and
exports during its early Middle Ages; original mining equipment
and a mine shaft; an exclusive 1:1 scale model (in cubic
zirconium) of the total quantity of world diamond production;
hundreds of genuine manufacturing tools, for sawing, bruting and
polishing, used within the diamond industry in Belgium, and, of
course, thousands of real diamonds.
Every day at 12.15
PM, a polishing demonstration is carried out by a diamond polisher
in the museum's extraordinary diamond polishing workshop,
established in the restored basement which dates from the Middle
Ages.
Address:
Katelijnestraat 43, 8000 Bruges
Timings: 10:30 am – 5:30pm
Diamond polishing demonstration: 12:15 pm
Phone: + 32 50 34 20 56
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