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Just like the it sounds, 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 unique museum depicts the stages of putting together a comic strip as well as wonderful displays of cartoon art form artists around the world and of course Belgium's most famous cartoonists. |
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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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Jewish Museum |
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Mini Europe & Atomium Located in Bruparck, the Atomium is a spectacular structure representing the atom, magnified 165 billion times. Mini Europe is a fun, family attraction where the most famous monuments in Europe are scaled down to miniatures. |
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Museum of Music Instruments (MIM) Housed in a beautiful art nouveau structure are over 7000 musical instruments including everything from the bizarre to the beautiful. Don't miss a trip to the top of the structure where you can get a magnificent panorama of Brussels. |
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Royal Army and Military History Museum Ten centuries of military history located adjacent to the Cinquantenaire Arch at Jubelpark. The collection includes suits of armor, masterly crafted swords, hundreds of uniforms from tens of countries medals, flags and even planes and armored vehicles. |
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Royal Institute for Natural Sciences of Belgium Museum This museum houses fantastic collection of all things science and nature including iguanodons, the only one of its kind in the world, automated dinosaurs larger than life, a vivarium of spiders and amazing 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 consists of the Ancient & Modern Art Museums, holds some twenty thousand paintings, sculptures and drawings. Discover some of Belgium and Europe's finest here where the artistic menu offers everyone from Bosch and Bruegel, Cranach and Memling, Jordaens and 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 that is the only one of its kind in the world. It also 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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This museum was founded in 1835 and has an important collection of art objects from different civilizations from all over the world. It offers an overview of the history of mankind in the five continents from prehistoric times until today. The museum is part of the Royal Museums of Art and History, to which also belong The Hallepoortmuseum, The Japanese Tower and the Chinese Pavilion. |
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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. The bourgeois costumes the lace was made for are also on show in thematic exhibits. |
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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 and embracing the artistic fields of music, theater, cinema and art. It is the focus for the city's music and dance, and is home to the Belgian National Orchestra. |
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