Paul Delvaux museum, Art museum in Saint-Idesbald, Belgium

The Paul Delvaux Museum occupies Het Vlierhof, a white-painted former fisherman's cottage with a stepped gable and a red tiled roof, on the seafront of Sint-Idesbald. The building displays the name "Museum Paul Delvaux" in black letters above a large multi-paned window and a round-arched entrance. Since 1988, exhibition halls have been added underground, including rooms beneath the car park in 1997.

The museum opened on 26 June 1982 in Het Vlierhof, a former fisherman's cottage that had been enlarged into a hotel-restaurant and was bought for the Paul Delvaux Foundation, founded in 1972. Delvaux attended the inauguration with his wife Tam. Two rooms were added in 1983, a first underground hall in 1988 and more underground rooms in 1997.

The works on display feature classical architecture, trains, and female figures as recurring visual motifs that appear throughout the galleries. These elements create a recognizable thread running through the collection that visitors will notice repeated across different rooms.

The museum occupies Het Vlierhof, the former fisherman's cottage of artist John Bakker, on the edge of Saint-Idesbald. Part of the galleries lie underground, opened in 1988 and 1997, so allow time to move between the house and the lower halls. The entrance is through the round-arched door beneath the "Museum Paul Delvaux" lettering, reached by a paved walkway.

The exhibition demonstrates how individual motifs progress from initial sketches through drawings to finished paintings in a continuous artistic evolution. This approach allows visitors to see how the artist refined and developed his ideas over time.