Saint John’s Hospital has an eight hundred-year-old history of caring for pilgrims, travellers and the sick. Visit the medieval wards where the nuns and monks performed their work of mercy and marvel at the impressive collection of archives, art works, medical instruments and six paintings by Hans Memling.Also worth a visit: the Diksmuide attic, the old dormitory, the custodian’s room and the adjoining pharmacy.The medieval St. John's hospital, one of the oldest still existing hospitals in Europe. In 1978 it lost its function as a hospital and harbors now the Memling museum, the hospital museum and the old pharmacy.