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Design Museum Brussels is a museum located in the Heysel/Heizel Park in Brussels, Belgium, close to the Atomium. The space focuses on design works from the 20th and 21st centuries. It was formerly called the Art and Design Atomium Museum (ADAM) until 2020. The size of the museum is 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft) and it received about 126,000 visitors in 2019. Arnaud Bozzini is the museum's director.
Wikipedia: Design Museum Brussels (EN), Website, Facebook, Mapillary
Autoworld is a museum of vintage cars located in the South Hall of the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium. The museum displays a large and varied collection of over 250 European and American automobiles from the late 19th century to the 1990s and is notable for its collections of early and Belgian-produced vehicles, including Minervas and several limousines belonging to the Belgian royal family. It can be accessed from the metro stations Schuman and Merode on lines 1 and 5.
The House of European History (HEH) is a history museum and cultural institution in Brussels, Belgium, focusing on the recent history of Europe. It is an initiative by the European Parliament, and was proposed in 2007 by the Parliament's then-president, Hans-Gert Pöttering; it opened on 6 May 2017.
The Palace of Laeken or Castle of Laeken is the official residence of the King of the Belgians and the Belgian royal family. It lies in the Brussels-Capital Region, 5 km (3 mi) north of the city centre, in Laeken, and sits in a large private park called the Royal Domain of Laeken.
5. Le Penseur
The Thinker is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, situated atop a stone pedestal. The work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand. The pose is one of deep thought and contemplation, and the statue is often used as an image to represent philosophy.
6. Joseph Deschamps
The list of Stumbling Stones in the Brussels-Capital Region provides an overview of the memorial stones that have been placed in cities in the Brussels-Capital Region since May 2009, as part of the Stumbling Stones project by the German sculptor-artist Gunter Demnig. Stumbling stones are also called stumbling stones, memorial cobblestones or pavés de mémoire. As the Stolpersteine project is ongoing, this list may be incomplete.
Wikipedia: Lijst van Stolpersteine in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (NL)
7. Royal Mint Theatre
The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium. The National Opera of Belgium, a federal institution, takes the name of this theatre in which it is housed—La Monnaie in French or De Munt in Dutch—referring both to the building as well as the opera company. As Belgium's leading opera house, it is one of the few cultural institutions to receive financial support from the Federal Government of Belgium. Other opera houses in Belgium, such as the Vlaamse Opera and the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, are funded by regional governments.
8. Mini-Europe
Mini-Europe is a miniature park located in the Bruparck entertainment park, at the foot of the Atomium, in Brussels, Belgium. Mini-Europe has reproductions of monuments in the European Union and other countries within the continent of Europe on display, at a scale of 1:25. Roughly 80 cities and 350 buildings are represented. Mini-Europe receives 350,000 visitors per year and has a turnover of €4 million.
9. Boule et Bill - Bollie en Billie
Boule et Bill is a popular comic, created in 1959 by Belgian writer-artist Jean Roba in collaboration with Maurice Rosy. In 2003, the artistic responsibility of the series was passed on to Roba's former assistant Laurent Verron. The stories center on a typical family: a man and his wife, their young son Boule and Bill the cocker spaniel.
10. Art & History Museum
The Art & History Museum is a public museum of antiquities and ethnographic and decorative arts located at the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium. The museum is one of the constituent parts of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) and is one of the largest art museums in Europe. It was formerly called the Cinquantenaire Museum until 2018. It is served by the metro stations Schuman and Merode on lines 1 and 5.
11. Colonne du Congrès - Congreskolom
The Congress Column is a monumental column in Brussels, Belgium, commemorating the creation of the Belgian Constitution by the National Congress of 1830–31. Inspired by Trajan's Column in Rome, it was erected between 1850 and 1859, on the initiative of the then-Prime Minister of Belgium, Charles Rogier, according to a design by the architect Joseph Poelaert. At the top of the column is a statue of Belgium's first monarch; King Leopold I, and at its base, the pedestal is surrounded by statues personifying the four freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution. The Belgian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame lies at its foot.
12. Belgian Comic Strip Center
The Belgian Comic Strip Center is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to Belgian comics. It is located at 20, rue des Sables/Zandstraat, in an Art Nouveau building designed by Victor Horta, and can be accessed from Brussels-Congress railway station and Brussels-Central railway station.
13. Church of Our Lady of Laeken
The Church of Our Lady of Laeken is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Brussels district of Laeken, Belgium. Built in neo-Gothic style, it was originally erected in memoriam of Queen Louise-Marie, wife of King Leopold I, to the design of the architect Joseph Poelaert.
14. Bois de la Cambre - Ter Kamerenbos
The Bois de la Cambre or Ter Kamerenbos (Dutch) is an urban public park in Brussels, Belgium. It lies in the south of the Brussels-Capital Region, in the City of Brussels, and covers an area of 1.23 km2 (0.47 sq mi), forming a natural offshoot of the Sonian Forest, which penetrates deep into the city in the south-east of Brussels. It is linked to the rest of the municipality by the Avenue Louise/Louizalaan, which was built in 1861, at the same time the park was laid out.
15. Ancienne Belgique
The Ancienne Belgique (AB) is a concert hall for contemporary music in Brussels, Belgium. Located in the historic heart of Brussels, it is one of the leading concert venues in Belgium, hosting a wide variety of international and local acts. Some 300,000 people attend a concert at the "AB" every year.
16. Église Notre-Dame au Sablon - Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ter-Zavelkerk
The Church of Our Lady of Victories at the Sablon, or the Church of Our Lady of the Sablon, is a Roman Catholic church located in the Sablon/Zavel district, in the historic centre of Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to Our Lady of the Sablon.
17. Théâtre de Poche
The Théâtre de Poche is a theatrical institution founded in Brussels in 1951 by Roger Domani (1926-1997) and Roland Ravez (1930-2017). It has been located at the entrance to the Bois de la Cambre since 1966. Initially experimental in its texts and forms, Théâtre de Poche has focused since the 1990s on a theatre devoted to social issues.
18. Brussels City Museum
The Brussels City Museum is a municipal museum on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt of Brussels, Belgium. Conceived in 1860 and inaugurated in 1887, it is dedicated to the history and folklore of the City of Brussels from its foundation into modern times, which it presents through paintings, sculptures, tapestries, engravings, photos and models, including a notable scale-representation of the town during the Middle Ages.
19. Église Saint-Josse - Sint-Joostkerk
The church of Saint-Josse in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels) is a neo-baroque style church built from 1867 by the architect Jules-Jacques Van Ysendyck who took over the work begun in 1864 by Jean-Frédéric Van der Rit.
20. André Vésale - Andreas Vesalius
The statue of Andreas Vesalius is a statue erected on the Place des Barricades in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, to the glory of Andreas Vesalius, a famous Brussels physician and anatomist of the sixteenth century.
21. Queen Astrid Memorial
The Queen Astrid Memorial is a building erected in Laeken, a former municipality integrated into the city of Brussels in Belgium, in memory of Astrid of Sweden, fourth Queen of the Belgians and wife of King Leopold III, who died in a car accident on August 29, 1935 in Switzerland when Leopold's convertible went off the road near Küssnacht.
22. Archs of the Cinquantenaire
The Cinquantenaire Arcade is a memorial arcade in the centre of the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium. The centrepiece is a monumental triple arch known as the Cinquantenaire Arch. It is topped by a bronze quadriga sculptural group with a female charioteer, representing the Province of Brabant personified raising the national flag.
23. Théâtre de la Toison d’Or
The Théâtre de la Toison d'or, also abbreviated as TTO, is a theatre in Brussels, located in the Galeries de la Toison d'or, near the Louise district, in the municipality of Ixelles. Inaugurated in 1995, this theatre aims to promote humour, comedy of all kinds, as well as Belgian creation.
24. Parc Léopold - Leopoldpark
Leopold Park is a public park of 6.43 ha located within the Leopold Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. It is adjacent to the Paul-Henri Spaak building, the seat of the European Parliament. It is served by the metro stations Maalbeek/Maelbeek and Schuman on lines 1 and 5 of the Brussels Metro.
25. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a monument in Brussels where the remains of an unknown soldier were buried on 11 November 1922. The monument is located at the foot of the Congress Column, which commemorates the National Congress of 1830, which ratified the Belgian Constitution.
26. Parc de Laeken - Park van Laken
The Laeken Park is a public park in Brussels created in the nineteenth century at the instigation of King Leopold II. Landscaped in style, it extends over more than 186 ha. It is located opposite the Royal Castle of Laeken.
27. Pro Patria
The Monument to the Martyrs of the 1830 Revolution, also known as the Pro Patria Monument, is an allegorical monument on the Place des Martyrs/Martelaarsplein in Brussels, Belgium, commemorating the victims of the Belgian Revolution of 1830.
Wikipedia: Monument to the Martyrs of the 1830 Revolution (EN)
28. Comtes d'Egmont et de Hornes - Graven van Egmont en Hoorn
The Fountain of the Counts of Egmont and Hornes, located in the Square du Petit Sablon in Brussels, is a monument to the memory of the Counts of Egmont and Hornes, who were beheaded on 5 June 1568 at the beginning of the Dutch uprising against King Philip II of Spain.
29. Monument au Travail - Monument aan de Arbeid
The monument at work in Brussels is located in the Laeken section, north of the large signing basin, on the yachts quay. The monument erected by the architect Mario Knauer in 1930, features five bronze sculptures and four high reliefs, works of the Constantin Meunier sculptor (1831-1905) which from the 1890s worked on this project posthumously.
30. Unity in Peace
The Statue of Europe is a sculpture symbolising peace through European integration, while at the same time aiming to demonstrate the motto of the European Union (EU), "United in Diversity". It is located in the garden of Convent Van Maerlant in the crossroads of the Rue Van Maerlant/Van Maerlantsraat and the Chaussée d'Etterbeek/Etterbeeksesteenweg, in the European Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. Made out of resin, the statue measures more than 5 m and weighs nearly 800 kg. It was inaugurated on 9 December 2003 by Neil Kinnock and Viviane Reding, who respectively were Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Culture at the time. 2003 was the European Year of People with Disabilities, and the Eastern enlargement of the EU was awaited.
31. Jewish Museum of Belgium
The Jewish Museum of Belgium is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium, focusing on the history of the Jews in Belgium. It is located at 21, rue des Minimes/Minimenstraat in the Sablon/Zavel district of Brussels. This site is served by the bus stop Grand Sablon/Grote Zavel.
32. Galerie du Roi - Koningsgalerij
The King's Gallery in Brussels, along with the Queen's Gallery and the Princes' Gallery, is part of the Royal Galleries of Saint-Hubert built by the architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar and inaugurated in 1847; it extends from the rue des Bouchers to the rue d'Arenberg. It is home to the Théâtre Royal des Galeries.
33. Église Sainte-Alice - Sint-Aleydiskerk
St. Alice's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium. Located at 136 Avenue Dailly, and built to replace an earlier building, the church dates from 1953. Since the beginning of the twentieth century it has been a Catholic parish.
34. Brussels Expo
The Brussels Exhibition Centre, also known as Brussels Expo, is the primary event complex in Brussels, Belgium. Located on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Laeken, the twelve halls that comprise it are used for the largest national and international trade fairs, exhibitions and other events. With 115,000 m2 (1,240,000 sq ft) of facility space, they constitute the largest exhibition space in the Benelux. They are also a remarkable witness to the evolution of construction techniques during the 20th century.
35. Au Vieux Spijtigen Duivel
Au vieux spijtigen duivel or Au vieux spytigen duivel, nicknamed the Old Spijt by the people of Brussels, is a brasserie-restaurant located in Uccle and whose existence has been attested since the eighteenth century. However, legend dates it back to the year 1500. This makes it one of the oldest establishments in the Brussels region. Since 2010, the building has been listed.
36. Musée Wiertz Museum
The Wiertz Museum is a museum dedicated to the oeuvre of a single artist; the painter, sculptor and writer Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865). The Wiertz Museum, located in Rue Vautier in the Brussels municipality of Ixelles, was built as a studio and residence at the expense of the state for the painter Antoine Wiertz, who would leave behind seven monumental paintings in return. Shortly after the artist's death, the studio became a museum. Henri or Hendrik Conscience lived in the house from 1868, until his death in 1883.
37. Église Sainte-Thérèse d'Avila - Sint-Teresia van Avilakerk
The Church of St. Teresa of Avila, the Church of Mar Addaï and Mar Mari is a religious building located at 352 Avenue Rogier, between Place Général Meiser and Rue des Pavots, in the Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek.
38. Monument to the Belgian pioneers in Congo
The Monument to the Belgian Pioneers in Congo is an allegorical monument in the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by the sculptor Thomas Vinçotte and crafted between 1911 and 1921 to commemorate the Congo Free State. In particular, it honours the Belgian 'pioneers' (soldiers) who brought 'civilisation' to the Congo, especially through the Congo–Arab War (1892–1894) that sought to conquer present-day East Congo and end the Arab slave trade there.
Wikipedia: Monument to the Belgian Pioneers in Congo (EN), Heritage Website
39. Parc Georges Henri - Georges Henripark
Georges Henri Park is a park located in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in Brussels, Belgium. It is located next to the Square de Meudon. The development of the park is the result of the decommissioning of the Etterbeek cemetery, which had been built in 1897 on a three-hectare plot.
40. Parc d'Osseghem - Ossegempark
The Parc d'Osseghem is a 17-hectare forest park located on the Heysel plateau in Brussels. It was laid out between 1927 and 1935, on the initiative of Leopold II, according to the plans of the landscape architect Jules Buyssens, as part of the organisation of the 1935 Universal Exhibition.
41. Église de l'Épiphanie - Driekoningenkerk
The Church of the Epiphany is a Catholic place of worship located at 470B rue de Genève in Schaerbeek (Brussels). In no way similar to what is generally considered a 'church', it is partially integrated into a residential and commercial building. The parish is bilingual.
42. Monument to the Dynasty
The Monument to the Dynasty is a monument erected in Brussels, Belgium, in memory of King Leopold I, first King of the Belgians. The monument is located in Laeken Park, on the Place de la Dynastie/Vorstenhuisplein, on top of a 50-metre-high (160 ft) hill. It completes the monumental axis, which starts from the portal of the Royal Palace of Laeken, and which leads to the monument after crossing the Avenue du Parc Royal/Koninklijk Parklaan via the Avenue de la Dynastie/Vorstenhuislaan.
43. Musée du CPAS de Bruxelles - Museum van het OCMW van Brussel
The Museum of the Public Centre for Social Welfare of Brussels is a museum in the Marolles district. It is located high up in an administrative building and can only be visited about eight hours a week.
Wikipedia: Museum van het Openbaar Centrum voor Maatschappelijk Welzijn van Brussel (NL), Website
44. Jardin Colonial - Koloniale Tuin
The Colonial Garden of Laeken is an acclimatization garden for the plants of the Congo, created at the very beginning of the twentieth century, in Laeken, Belgium, by the botanist Émile Laurent, on the initiative of King Leopold II.
45. Église du Divin Sauveur - Goddelijke Zaligmakerkerk
The Church of the Divine Saviour is a Roman Catholic church building located on Avenue de Roodebeek in the Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek. Built in 1935 and enlarged in 1963, it is dedicated to the divine Saviour (Jesus Christ).
46. Chapelle Notre-Dame de Laeken - Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekapel
The Chapel of Our Lady is the choir and only remaining part of the former Church of Our Lady of Laeken in the Belgian city of Brussels in the Brussels-Capital Region. The choir of this former church is located in the cemetery of Laeken, northwest of the current Church of Our Lady.
47. Villa gallo-romaine - Gallo-Romeinse villa
The Roman villa Jette is an archaeological site of a Roman villa in the Belgian municipality of Jette in the Brussels-Capital Region. The site is located southeast of the Laarbeek forest in the King Baudouin Park on the Bosstraat. About 200 meters to the south flows the Molenbeek-Pontbeek.
48. Église Notre-Dame du Rosaire - Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van de Rozenkranskerk
The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary is a church building in the municipality of Uccle, Belgium, in the Brussels-Capital Region. The church is located on Avenue Montjoie in the northwest of the municipality of Uccle.
Wikipedia: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van de Rozenkranskerk (Ukkel) (NL)
49. Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
The Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity is an Anglican church building in the municipality of Ixelles in Brussels. The Anglican Communion, which has been present in Brussels for some two hundred years, originally met in private homes. It was not until after the Battle of Waterloo that the first regular congregations were established. The first chapel of this commune was located in the Rue Belliard in Brussels. The present church was built between 1883 and 1885 by contractor Jean François according to the plans of architect William Barber. In 1897 the church was extended with the choir to a design by the architects Huvenne and Jasinski. After the First World War, in 1928, the Church House (presbytery) was erected along the street. In 2001, a modern hall complex was added to the church building.
Wikipedia: Heilige Drievuldigheidskathedraal (Brussel) (NL), Website
50. National Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium
The National Memorial of the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium is a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Belgium during World War II. The monument is located on the Place des Martyrs in Cureghem, a district in the Belgian municipality of Anderlecht in the Brussels-Capital Region. It is an initiative of the non-profit organisation Union des Déportés Juifs de Belgique, Filles et Fils de la Déportation. The memorial was officially inaugurated on April 19, 1970, on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in the presence of then Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens, Mayor of Anderlecht Joseph Bracops, Chief Rabbi of Belgium Robert Dreyfus and Pastor P. Kahlenberg.
51. Parc de Wolvendael - Wolvendaelpark
The Wolvendael Park is a Brussels park of about 18 hectares, located in the municipality of Uccle in Brussels, south of the Square des Héros and Avenue de Fré, and north of the Dieweg cemetery. it occupies the southern slope of the former Ukkelbeek valley.
52. Chapel of the Resurrection
The Chapel of the Resurrection, also known as the Chapel for Europe, is a Catholic religious building with an ecumenical vocation located at 24 rue van Maerlant, in the heart of the European quarter of Brussels. Formerly the chapel of a convent of contemplative nuns, the building was restored and reopened in 2008 as a European ecumenical place. Worship and activities are celebrated in several languages, but mainly in English and French. The pastoral responsibility of the Chapel was entrusted to the Jesuits.
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