Pioneering expressionist painter James Ensor (1860–1945) lived and worked for almost 40 years in the house that forms this attractive little museum. Its ground floor is presented as a 19th-century souvenir shop, much as in Ensor’s time. The cabinets full of crustacea, skulls, masks and bizarre fish grafted with demonic faces are elements that would appear in many an Ensor canvas. On the 2nd floor is a reproduction of his chaotic 1888 classic, The Entry of Christ into Brussels .
