Two other museums are located close to the tourist office. Life as it was for some in the 18th century is depicted in the beautiful Musée d'Ansembourg. If you've just come from either the Musée de la Vie Wallonne or the Musée d'Art Réligieux et d'Art Mosan, you'll find this rich, Regency-styled mansion wonderfully uncluttered. Highlights include four original 17th-century Oudenaarde tapestries, pieces of antique delftware pottery and, upstairs, a six-faced clock.

The latter simultaneously shows the time in 50 countries and was invented in 1795 by one Hubert Sarton; it still works.