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The 19th century old Cantillon brewery is a highlight when you'r intrested in beers. The small family business is more then 100 years old and still completely independent.
Here you walk back in time between cellars fully stored with barrels of the mysterious beer, the result of the spontanious fermentation by airborne wild yeast.
The Lambic is a natural beer with an extraordinary taste and the Cantillon geuze one of the best.
Tip: Check the the Cantillon cuvé..mmmm
Brasserie-Brewery Cantillon
Rue Gheude straat 56
1070 Brussels
10 min. walk from Train station: Midi / South
Tram: 18 - 52 - 55 - 81 - 82
Closed: Sunday and official holidays
Price: 3,50 Euro with a free taster of geuze. Leave a Comment |
A little museum, quite unknown - I bet even not all locals know it. It's Ixelles municipality museum, in Ixelles area obviously. For this reason, I am listing it in Off the beaten path tips too.
The setting is not impressive at all, the interesting permanent collection is: mostly Belgian works and posters.. lots of that. Even think the posters are the highlight of the permanent collection.
The most interesting part was, for me, the great collection of all-eras' bills and posters too. In paintings, not to look over: Rik Wouters (probably my favourite Belgian painter), Permeke and De Smet.
Posters in permanent gatherings:
*Exemples of French posters:
http://www.musee-ixelles.be/ABQ1BR3R/FILE/XLnewsite/collections/0511.htm
*Exemples of Belgian posters:
http://www.musee-ixelles.be/ABQ1BR3R/FILE/XLnewsite/collections/0512.htm
Also, the museum uses to host temporary exhibitions. My first visit in 2001 was to see a Sotheby's paintings collection. I learnt about the exhibition by chance and saw the museum for first time. Happy to have discovered it.
Returned again in May 2005... to attend another exhibition of La Collection Planque. It's always a nice surprise and a refreshing experience to go to this small museum. Still, I enjoyed my two hours (and a bit more) spent in there. I was surprised by the number of attendants as well. Little I knew so many people could have noticed it. Oh! talk Cézanne, Dubuffet, Klee, Picasso.. and the "cultured" people would flock in. Though very little dare to check the interesting permanent collection.
Opening Hours:
*Tuesday-Friday: 1pm - 6.30 pm
*Saturday & Sunday: 10 am - 5 pm
Address: 71 rue Jean Van Volsem - 1050 BXL Leave a Comment |
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This great museum is located about 10 km outside Brussels. Surrounded by a lot of parks and walking areas, it is ideal place to spend a sunny dan. In case of rain go inside and discover interesting sculptures, maps, animals, plants etc. from Central Africa. Friend of mine who lives in Brussels told me that Tervuren was opened for World Fair (cannot recall the year) and that people from colonies were exposed for visitors in simulation of their natural habitat (how inhumane!). We have tried to find out more but museum guide was reluctant to give us straight answer! Leave a Comment |
“Hergé” or Georges Rémi signed his drawings with his initials "R.G." was born in Brussels on 22 May 1907 and the most known comic book writer of Belgium. In his first comic book “Tintin and his dog Snowy” travelled to the Land of the Soviets. The style he put in his comic strip books was characterized by the details of his drawings and stories and made him one of the leaders in Belgian comic strip books.
The character of Tintin, who’s profession is a reporter with a quiff and Snowy, the white fox terrier as his faithful companion and other characters like Captain Haddock, Thomson and Thompson and Bianca Castafiore. There’s no doubt Georges Rémi was the reporter and an avid traveller and did a lot of research before he publish a new comic.
You can visit the Museum of Comic Strips at 20, rue des Sables, 1000 Bruxelles (centre) witch is located in the nice renovated “magasins Waucquez” designed by the famous architect Horta. Leave a Comment |
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So far, my fave !
I think that if you have a few time in Brussels with MIM, Musee des Instruments de Musique, it is a great deal as far as museums are concerned. For an extra reason : even Brussels people don't know it that much.
I discovered it by chance in 1997, while wandering in Brussels office district. In fact, this used to be an old art district but offices took over art.
The first exhibition I assisted there was "Emile Verhaeren, un mus?e imaginaire". Focus on Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet, as a link between Belgian and French artists in 1848- 1914 era. Manet, Seurat, Monet, Toulouse- Lautrec paintings adjoined with Rodin woodcarving pieces, Ensor and Meunier drawings. Visitors could even have a glance at epistolary contents that tied those artistes and "passeurs" (a kind of art smugglers) ...
The whole was displayed in a jewel case that is this building that used to be Henri Van Cutsem town house. He had it restaured by Victor Horta so as to settle his private collection (refurbished in 2003). I appreciated the sensible choice as for the place: a feeling of intimacy that bigger exhibition rooms do not deliver. The exhibition led me in the past, when those now famous artists struggled for the then recognition of their art.
Nowadays, Mus?e Charlier' s permanent collection gathers paintings, tapestry, sculpture, furniture and plate items.
Most of artists whose works, of high quality, are exhibited in Mus?e Charlier are Belgian. Painters, for instance, are those of late XIX -early XX centuries. As for pieces of furniture, they just give to the house a cosy atmosphere with their varied style: China, Renaissance, Empire... The history of the collection' s building up is quite interesting to read. First, take a glance at its website (only French and Dutch) and read about history. Then come to Brussels to see it.
Avenue des Arts- Kunstlaan 16 - 1210
Metro M stations: Arts-Loi or Madou
See map at: http://www.musee-charlier-museum.be/fr/contact.phpBrussels Leave a Comment |
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I'll tell you a secret. I've got the chance of my lifetime by having visited this detached house in the Parc of Cinquantenaire. Conceived by Horta to house a monumental high-relief sculpture of Jef Lambeau in white Carare marble, the pavillon made a scandal and was closed only three days after its opening. At present it is only open at very rare occasions. Strange Human Passions....
Ordered by the belgian government in 1890 the sculpture has been shown to the public eight years later in a little temple built by Victor Horta. The cooperation between the two artists was very turbulent . At that time the work of art is marked by the press as an insult to the good customs and since it is still hidden to the public's eyes. I don't understand why.....
Parc du Cinquantenaire, near Rond-Point Schuman, the Mosque and European Community, 1040 Bruxelles Leave a Comment |
The Clockarium museum is conveniently housed in Schaerbeek, at the entrance to Brussels, in a nice Art Deco house built in 1935 by the architect G. Bossuyt. More than a thousand ceramic mantelpiece clocks are displayed on three floors:
the first floor is devoted to French and Czech art deco ceramic clocks
the second floor is for Belgian pieces
the third floor is for art deco ceramic clocks of various origins: German, Dutch, Austrian, Italian and unknown;
also, two rooms are devoted to the decadent clocks from the Fifties till now.
A room will soon open on the ground floor for antique and collectible clocks former to 1920 Leave a Comment |
Do you like iguanodons, dinosaurs larger than life, mammuths, human evolution, a vivarium of spiders and amazing invertebrates, plus a collection of giant whales ?. This Museum is the place to be introducing the general public to the body of scientific knowledge built up by its researchers.
There are also very interesting temporary exhibitions and all kinds of animations for children and adults.
Opening hours :Tuesday to Friday from 9:30 to 16:45
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed on Mondays.
Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels (In the vicinity of the European Communities) Leave a Comment |
The former Old England (built in 1889 by Paul Saintenoy, one of the most beautiful Art Nouveau buildings in Brussels) houses the Musical Instrument Museum, a part of the Royal Museum of art and History.
The Musical Instrument Museum exhibits a large collection of musical instruments :
Floor -1 : mechanical instruments, 20th century instruments, a group of bells and a sound area.
Ground floor : Belgian and european folk instruments as well as non-european instruments.
First floor : a historical tour from antiquity to the 20th century.
Second floor : a more systematic presentation, showing the development of keyboards instruments and stringed instruments.
Floor +2 : shops - books, CDs, instruments and presents
Floor +3 : a specialised library for music lovers or specialists.
Floor +6 : a restaurant providing a wonderful panoramic view of Brussels.
Address : 2 Rue Montagne de la Cour, Brussels
Metro : lines 1A ,1B (Central Station or Park)
Tramways : lines 92, 93, 94 (Royale)
Bus : lines 20, 38, 60, 71, 95, 96 ( Royale)
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This museum is very well done and interesting. Dedicated to the Belgian comic strip and the artists that produce them, this museum is quite extensive, on 3 floors in a art nouveau building designed by Victor Horta and adapted to exhibit the collection. Great bookstore with loads of posters. Quite fun and colorful.
Location
Zandstraat / Rue des Sables, 20
1000 Brussels
02/219.19.80
Opening hours
From 10am to 6pm
Admission
Adults : 6,20 € (Euro) per person.
Seniors : 5 € (Euro) per person
Children under 12 : 2,50 € (Euro) per person Leave a Comment |
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