Oud Wyck is home to charming galleries, restaurants, and quirky antiques and other shops. But another section of Wyck called Céramique was redeveloped in the last couple of decades around the site of a pottery factory (pictured here). It includes flats, restaurants, shops, and cultural institutions such as the Bonnefantenmuseum, founded in 1884 and housed since 1995 at a stylishly refurbed factory site, its collection a mix of Dutch/Flemish and European art back to the 13th century, as well as a growing body of 20th- and 21st-century works.

Read more in my post A Treaty and a Treat: the Fun, Historic Dutch City of Maastricht.

 

Mark Ahsmann
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