Museum Plantin-Moretus
Museum Plantin-Moretus
Vrijdagmarkt 22
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
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The Print Cabinet of the Museum Plantin-Moretus has more than 20,000 drawings. This rich collection is among the finest in the world, and focuses on Antwerp artists from 1500 to the present. Since 1991, the Print Cabinet has been a member of the International Advisory Committee of Keepers of Public Collections of Graphic Art, bringing together the fifty most important print rooms worldwide.
The collection of prints and drawings originated from the collection of the Museum Plantin-Moretus and the private collection of its first curator, Max Rooses. Book illustrations are an area of specialisation shared by the Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Print Cabinet. The history of the two institutions is therefore closely linked.