Destination: BELGIUM | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sights*
Cathédrale St.-Michel et Ste.-Gudule
* Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée * Grand' Place * Musée Horta * Musée Royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire Militaire * Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles * Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique |
Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles
The Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles (City of Brussels Museum) is a local celebration of Brussels and has very little information
in English. It deserves a visit, however, because of its porcelain, pottery and Brussels' tapestries' collections, as well
as its paintings, including Pieter Brueghel the elder's splendid The Marriage Procession.
The museum is located on Grand' Place in the handsome building known as the Maison du Roi (King's House). On the top floor
there is an entertaining display of some of the 654 costumes in the “wardrobe” of the Manneken-Pis that have been donated
by heads of state and others since 1698.
Address:
rue du Poivre 1 (entrance from Grand' Place)
Phone: 02 279 4350 Open: Tue.-Fri. 10-5, Sat.-Sun. 10-1 Bus: 29, 34, 47, 48, 60, 63, 65, 66, 71, 95 96; tram 23, 52, 55, 56, 81 Metro: Bourse, De Brouckère or Gare Centrale Admission: 2-4 |
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