Belgian Chocolate Village
1 Avenue Nekkersgat, Kalevoet-Moensberg, Uccle, 1180, Belgium
The Belgian Chocolate Village is a museum and chocolate factory in an Art Deco former chocolate factory in Koekelberg that traces the history of chocolate from Mesoamerican cacao cultivation through Belgian chocolatiers' transformation of the raw material into the pralines, truffles, and chocolate bars that have made Belgium the world's chocolate capital.
Belgian Comic Strip Center
20 Rue des Sables, Pentagone, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
The Belgian Comic Strip Center is housed in a gorgeous Victor Horta-designed Art Nouveau department store and celebrates Belgium's most unexpected cultural export — the comic strip, which Belgians call the 'ninth art' and treat with a seriousness that surprises visitors who think of comics as children's entertainment.
Cinquantenaire Park & Museums
Quartier Nord-Est, Brussels, Belgium
The Cinquantenaire is Brussels' triumphal park — a vast green space anchored by a monumental triple arch built in 1905 to celebrate Belgium's 50th anniversary of independence.
Halle Gate (Porte de Hal)
150 Boulevard du Midi, Pentagone, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
The Halle Gate is the only surviving gate of Brussels' 14th-century city wall — a massive stone tower at the edge of the Marolles that once marked the southern entrance to the walled city and now houses a small museum of medieval Brussels inside its spiral staircases and vaulted chambers.
Musée des Instruments de Musique (MIM)
2 Rue Montagne de la Cour, Pentagone, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
The Musical Instruments Museum occupies the Old England Building — a 1899 Art Nouveau department store by Paul Saintenoy that is one of the most beautiful buildings in Brussels, with a facade of glass and iron that soars five storeys above Mont des Arts in sinuous curves that make steel look organic.
Musée Magritte
Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Brussels
The Magritte Museum houses the world's largest collection of works by René Magritte — over 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and objects by Belgium's most famous artist, displayed chronologically across five floors of a neoclassical building on Place Royale.
Parc Léopold & Natural Sciences Museum
29 Rue Vautier, Quartier Nord-Est, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
Parc Léopold is a small, steep green space tucked behind the European Parliament that houses one of Brussels' best-kept museum secrets — the Museum of Natural Sciences, home to the largest collection of Iguanodon dinosaur skeletons in the world, discovered in a Belgian coal mine in 1878.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts
Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Brussels
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts is Belgium's national art collection — a complex of six museums sharing interconnected buildings near the Royal Palace that together hold over 20,000 works spanning six centuries, from the Flemish Primitives through Bruegel and Rubens to Magritte and contemporary Belgian art.
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