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Most tourist attractions and museums are open on Sundays and closed on Mondays. Special entrance packages are available in main cities.
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| Nocturnes - Late Night Museum Nights in Brussels |
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At night the light may be fading, but the museums of Brussels will be illuminated for you to discover their many treasures in an extraordinary atmosphere! Every Thursday evening from late September to mid December, between 5pm and 10pm, the Brussels Museums invite you to take advantage of a series of Late-Evening Openings to (re)discover their magnificent collections. Guided tours, drinks or unusual activities are available. |
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The Brussels Card provides free access to over 25 museums, unlimited travel on public transportation and 23 exclusive offers. More information on www.brusselscard.be |
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This museum is dedicated to the history of the automotive industry with five extraordinary automobile collections including a carriage used by Napoleon III, motorcycles, speedsters and interesting concept cars. |
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Belgian Center for Comic Strip Art Located in an art nouveau masterpiece designed by Victor Horta, this museum depicts the stages of putting together a cartoon as well as wonderful displays of Belgian and international cartoon artists. |
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This is the official museum of the Belgian Dynasty including the King Baudouin Memorial and Vestiges of the Palace of Emperor Charles V also known as the Archeological site of the Coudenberg. |
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David and Alice van Buuren Museum This house bought in 1928 by the banker and patron David van Buuren has an outdoor architecture typical of the Amsterdam School and an indoor decoration typical of "Art Deco" style by Belgian, French and Dutch designers. |
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| Gueuze (Beer) Museum This working brewery is also a working museum and has been around since 1900. Owned and operated by the Van Roy-Cantillon family, tours and tastings are available all year round. Their specialty is the Belgian beer known as Gueze, which some say resembles champagne. |
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This showcase of sinuous decorative lines, curved window frames, elaborate balconies and floral influence is the former home of Art Nouveau pioneer, Victor Horta. Attention to detail is keenly seen here where even the light switch panels are works of art. |
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Mini Europe is a fun, family attraction where the most famous monuments of Europe are scaled down to miniatures. Located in Bruparck, the Atomium is a spectacular structure representing the atom, magnified 165 billion times. |
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Museum of Music Instruments (MIM) Housed in a beautiful art nouveau structure, the MIM showcases over 7000 musical instruments. Don't miss a trip to the rooftop where you can get a magnificent view of Brussels City. |
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Royal Army and Military History Museum The Royal Army Museum, located adjacent to the Cinquantenaire Arch at Jubelpark, holds ten centuries of military history. The collection includes suits of armor, masterly crafted swords, uniforms from different countries, medals, flags and even planes and armored vehicles. |
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Royal Institute for Natural Sciences of Belgium Museum A fantastic collection of all things science and nature including iguanodons, the only one of its kind in the world, automated dinosaurs, a vivarium of spiders and invertebrates, not to mention a pod of giant whales. |
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Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium - Ancient Art Museum - Modern Art Museum Founded two centuries ago, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, which also holds the Ancient & Modern Art Museums, showcases a collection of twenty thousand paintings, sculptures and drawings. On the artistic menu are Grand Masters such as Bosch, Bruegel, Memling, Rubens, Delveaux and Magritte. |
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Royal Museum of Central Africa This museum is home to a collection of ethnographic objects from Central Africa and is the only one of its kind in the world. It has a film library, a photographic library and a large collection of maps and geological data. Its zoology collection features a large number of type specimens of African fauna, while the Entomology Section boasts some six million insects. |
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Founded in 1835, this museum holds an important collection of art objects from different civilizations worldwide. It offers an overview of the history of mankind in the five continents from prehistoric times until today. |
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Displayed in subdued lighting and safely laid out in drawers, this beautiful lace collection contains pieces made on the spindle and with needles, not only from Brussels but also from France and Italy. |
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Designed by Art Nouveau pioneer Victor Horta, the Center for Fine Arts in Brussels houses concert halls and exhibition areas open to all visitors. It embraces the city's music and dance scene, and is home to the Belgian National Orchestra. |
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Antwerp Museum Card Discover Antwerp's museums: for 20 Euro the card provides unlimited access for 48 hours to different museums and to public transportation. For more information on where and how to purchase the Antwerp Museum Card, please email balie@infocultuur.be |
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DiamondLand is the largest diamond showroom in Antwerp open to the public. Visitors are welcomed in their own language and during a 20 minutes guided tour, they are made familiar with cleaving, sawing, bruting, polishing and the international rules for grading diamonds, treating subjects like carat, color, cut and clarity. |
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The largest diamond museum in the world is located in Antwerp. A visit to this museum is a sensual experience of sound and vision that immerses the visitor into the fascinating diamond world, through the production process of diamonds, from the origin, the exploitation, processing and manufacturing methods, to the end result of ornamental or industrial diamonds. |
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This museum holds the art collection of Fritz Mayer van den Bergh. A large number of paintings, statues, tapestries, drawings and stained glassworks from the Middle Ages and the Age of Renaissance found a permanent place in an attractive house of a suitable historical style. |
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Middelheim Open-Air Statuary Museum This museum offers an overview of modern western sculpture, including works by artists such as Rodin, Bourdelle, and Manzu. The sculptures are presented in the surroundings of the Middelheim park. |
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The MoMu collection consists of a very diverse collection of clothing, lace, embroidery, fabrics and tools for artisanal textile processing. The oldest collection pieces date back to the 16th century, but the emphasis is on the 19th century. |
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Plantin-Moretus Museum & Municipal Print Room This museum guides visitors through 300 years of printing activity including the atmosphere of a real printing business, where the smell of paper and ink blends with the sound of the platen, fiercely pushing on the press. |
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This museum was once the home of the 17th century mayor Nicolaas Rockox, an art collector and also a friend of Rubens. The collection comprises works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, Teniers, Bruegel, Metsys and many others. |
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Rubens' House (Rubenshuis) This artist's home with the features of a palazzo is unequalled. The life of this great baroque painter unfolds before your eyes and enables you to discover his multifaceted talent: the painter, architect and diplomat, the collector and scientist, the husband and father. Above all, you will discover Rubens as the prince of baroque in Europe. |
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Open since 1810 and also known as the Koninklijk Museum, it has houses an outstanding collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. Artists represented in this romantic temple of art include masters such as Rubens, Wouters, Van der Weyden, Memling, Fouquet, Van Dyck and Delvaux. |
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Beguine's House (Beguinage) Beguinages, are walled medieval miniature cities which offered shelter to women during the middle ages when their husbands were off to the crusades. The Beguine's House provides a good picture of the day-to-day life of the former inhabitants. Sunday service at the Beguinage Church : 9.30 a.m. |
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The Diamond museum in Bruges is one of only 5 diamond museums in the world. Bruges is the city where the art of diamond polishing was invented in the 15th century by local goldsmith Lodewijk van Berquem. Every day at 12.15, a polishing demonstration is carried out by a diamond polisher in the museum's extraordinary diamond polishing workshop, established in the restored basement which dates from the Middle Ages. |
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Located in a series of 17th-century almshouses, it houses a collection of historic objects, arranged thematically in many settings such as a classroom, a cobbler’s workshop, a pharmacy, a tailor’s workshop etc. Traditional chocolate-making demonstrations on Thu. afternoons. Open daily except Mon. from 9:30 am – 5:00 pm. |
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This museum offers a rich and fascinating survey into the world-famous collection of ‘Flemish Primitive’ art, works by a wide range of Renaissance and Baroque masters, a selection of paintings from the 18th and 19th-century Neo-classical and Realist periods, milestones of Symbolism and Modernism, masterpieces of Flemish Expressionism and a rotating selection from the city’s collection of post-war modern art. |
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The excellently preserved 15th-century town palace of the Lords of Gruuthuse contains a remarkable collection of applied art, featuring furniture, tapestries, musical instruments, paintings, silverware, tin, pottery and weapons from the 13th to the 19th centuries. |
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This lace museum is housed in the tastefully restored almshouses founded by the Adornes family. Lace demonstrations are frequently given, whereas in the museum-shop all materials for lace-making can be purchased. |
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This museum is one of the oldest surviving medieval hospitals in Europe, evoking everyday life at the hospital in former times. The chapel, with its brilliant 15th-century panels by Hans Memling and the world-famous St Ursula shrine, is the treasure-house of the complex. The old hospital pharmacy with its physic garden is also worth a visit. |
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| Choco-Story, The Chocolate Museum The Chocolate Museum in Bruges provides historical, geographical and botanical information as well as recipes for chocolate lovers of all kinds. |
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You can visit the 15 most important museums and monuments of Ghent and their exhibitions for the single price of 12,50 €.
The Museum Card is valid for 3 days and can be bought at the participating museums, the tourist information points and the hotels.
The validity only starts at the first visit, which means that the card can be bought beforehand. The participating museums and monuments are: M.I.A.T., Museum of fine arts, S.M.A.K., Design museum Gent, Alijn House, Bijlokemuseum, Museum Dr. Guislain, Museum for the History of Science, Art center St Peter’s abbey, de Wereld van KINA (“het Huis” & “de Tuin”), Caermersklooster, Castle of the Counts, Belfry, St Bavo’s Cathedral + Mystic Lamb.
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Museums in Ghent
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The Castle of the Counts (Gravensteen) Throughout the centuries, the castle has been used as a Mint, a prison and a cotton plant. The castle is still partially surrounded by a medieval moat and can be visited all through the year. Outside on the tower is a panoramic view of the city and inside is a museum about the history of prison life including a very instructive collection of medieval torture instruments. |
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This modern museum has an eclectic collection of design products including furniture, jewelry, glass and ceramic creations. Everything from 17th and 18th-century furnishings displayed in stylish interiors, to groovy chairs from the seventies and eighties are waiting to be discovered here. The museum itself is interestingly designed where even the restrooms are unforgettable. |
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The museum was founded in 1798 and is one of the oldest in the country with a permanent collection of 300 to 350 works of art on display. The museum is closed for renovation until |
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