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Bruges Hotels Guide: Diamantmuseum

The Diamond Museum is dedicated to the world of diamonds, from mining to cutting and polishing to setting the stone in jewellery.

Bruges has a special place in the diamond trade as it was here in the fifteenth century a local goldsmith, Lodewijk van Berquem, supposedly invented the art of diamond polishing by using diamond powder on a rotating disk.