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If you're a history buff, art aficionado, archaeology fiend, or dabbler in the sciences, our museum picks are perfect for a rainy day or afternoon excursion! Our selections center around notable collections of historical and cultural items. Many have excellent rotating displays in addition to exceptional permanent collections.
Category: Museums - Brussels Attractions & Activities
Address: Place des Palais 7, Brussels B-1000
The BELvue Museum covers the history of Belgium from its creation in 1830 to the present day. The story is told in photos, documents, film archives and bric-a-brac, including a collection of objects formerly owned by King Baudouin I. Before it was converted a museum, the grand 18th-century building spent time as a luxury hotel and was also a royal...
Category: Museums - Brussels Attractions & Activities
Address: Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels
For Belgium's golden jubilee in 1880, Leopold II built this park to showcase the country's finest arts and crafts. Today, its massive buildings house three city museums: Autoworld, the Royal Museum of the Army and Military History, and the Royal Museum of Art and History. Autoworld displays more than 400 rare and vintage cars, including ones owned...
Category: Museums - Brussels Attractions & Activities
Address: Rue Gheude 56, Brussels B-1070
The Brussels Museum of the Gueuze is very much a working establishment, since it is also the Cantillon brewery. Cantillon are the last brewers to make their beer in the traditional Brussels style: fermented not by the addition of yeast, but by leaving the beer open to the skies and prone to the whims of natually occuring enzymes. This creates a...
Musée de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique
Category: Museums - Brussels Attractions & Activities
Address: Rue Vautier 29, Brussels B-1000
This family-friendly museum explores the natural world from prehistoric to modern times. The collection encompasses fifteen thematic sections, allowing visitors to stick to the topics that most interest them. Delicate seashells, a marine tank, an insect room, and a display comparing the Arctic and Antarctic are all popular, but the real stars are...
Category: Museums - Brussels Attractions & Activities
Address: Grand Place 10, Maison des Brasseurs, Brussels
The Confederation of Belgian Breweries owns and operates this small museum, which is the last of the original Grand-Place guild houses still owned by the guild. Included in the collection are holdings that demonstrate both modern and ancient brewing techniques. Also on display are paintings celebrating the art of beer brewing, decorative...
Category: Museums - Brussels Attractions & Activities
Address: Rue de la Tête d'Or 9-11, Brussels B-1000
One street from the Grand Place, the Cocoa and Chocolate Museum in the historic Valk mansion (it is also a former brewery), pays homage to another of those things the Belgians do best: creating world beating pralines. In addition to exhibits teaching about the history of chocolate, starting from the first cultivation of cocoa beans by the Aztecs,...
Category: Museums - Brussels Attractions & Activities
Address: Rue Américaine 25, Brussels
Native son Victor Horta developed Art Nouveau style, which is arguably Belgium's most influential aesthetic movement. Inspired by English Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau is characterized by flowing, organic shapes that show underlying structure but remain beautiful. Nowhere are Horta's principles more evident than in the home he designed and lived in...
Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale
Category: Museums - Brussels Attractions & Activities
Address: Leuvensesteenweg 13, Brussels B-3080
Originally, the Royal Museum of Central Africa chronicled Leopold II's private holdings and colonial ventures in the Belgian Congo. Today, the region is known as the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the museum broadly instructs visitors about the entire African continent. Sculpture and art, colonial-era firearms, animal dioramas, and displays on...
Category: Museums - Brussels Attractions & Activities
Address: Av Van Praet 44, Brussels B-1020
Three attractions in one, the Museums of the Far East comprise the Japanese Tower (actually a pagoda), the Chinese Pavilion, and the Japanese Museum of Art. The pagoda is particuarly attractive as it is surrounded by elegantly formal Japanese gardens.
