These two scenes are flanked by a pair of guarding Hermes figures, overhung by God, Christ as the Good Shepherd, and an allegorical dove.

The newfound organization (the Commissie van Openbare Onderstand, or COO) found itself with a huge art collection and decided to turn the chapel of the Lange Gasthuisstraat's building into a museum, which was opened in 1930.

[1][3][2][4] In the Reception, where there stood the administration of the Maidens' House and the catalogue with all the names of the orphans living at Maagdenhuis, there is a first assortment of paintings, which includes opera by Peter Ykens, Cornelis Schut and Erasmus Quellinus the Younger.

[1] In the Chairman's Hall, where the regent and the almoners used to convene, there is a second group of paintings, by artists such as Frans Floris, Pieter van Avont, Maarten Pepyn, and David Teniers the Younger.

[1] In the Side Corridor, which runs between the museum galleries, there hang paintings by artists like Frans Francken the Elder, Abraham Bloemaert, and Hendrick de Clerck.

[1][3][2] In what used to be the large kitchen, or the groote ceucken, there is the Sixteenth-century Gallery, with artworks by painters such as Jacob de Backer and Michiel Coxie.

The courtyard accommodates several sculptures and inscriptions, among which a wooden, 17th-century statue by an unknown master, Wooden Clara; a copy of Van den Eynde's original sculpture The Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus in the chapel; and Sebastiaen van den Eynde's Portrait of Cornelis II Landschot, ca.