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Forget dusty, boring museums. There are many to discover in Wallonia, each with its own universe, its own atmosphere. Some are vibrant, others quirky or immersive. All are incredibly welcoming, aiming at making learning fun. Exploring them is a pure delight, whether you are coming on your own, with family or friends.

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  • Wittert Museum ULiège
    Liège

    Wittert Museum ULiège

    The University of Liège has in its collections over 60,000 art pieces displayed at the Wittert Museum.
  • The Musée de la Gourmandise and Postal Museum at the Ferme Castrale
    Hermalle-sous-Huy

    The Musée de la Gourmandise and Postal Museum at the Ferme Castrale

    La Ferme Castrale invites you to discover its 3 cultural spaces: the Musée de la Gourmandise, the Musée des Postes restantes and its library.
  • The museums of the Latour village
    Latour

    The museums of the Latour village

    Latour may look like a peaceful little village in the Pays de Gaume, proud of an exceptional cultural heritage. The first and second world war scarred it deeply, as its cultural spaces will reveal. This charming location is well worth a detour.
  • The Général Jacques museum in Vielsalm, dedicated to the Great War
    A dragonfly sits on a flower
    Vielsalm

    The Général Jacques museum in Vielsalm, dedicated to the Great War

    The museum, just 5 minutes from Vielsalm, is dedicated to Baron Jacques of Dixmude (known as Général Jacques), a military hero in the Great War.
  • Pays des collines Eco Museum in La Hamaide
    Ellezelles

    Pays des collines Eco Museum in La Hamaide

    The Pays des Collines Eco Museum, with its intergenerational game, are sure to delight parents and children alike...
  • The Musée des Chasseurs à Pied, a military museum in Charleroi
    A dragonfly sits on a flower
    Charleroi

    The Musée des Chasseurs à Pied, a military museum in Charleroi

    This large building is quite noticeable when exploring Charleroi. A former barrack for infantry, Trésignie now is home to a museum dedicated to the brave regiment of the Chasseurs à Pied.
  • Discover Thuin and its boat making history at the Thudo Ecomuseum
    Thuin

    Discover Thuin and its boat making history at the Thudo Ecomuseum

    Thuin, once a boatmen's town, reveals part of its history to visitors. Step on board this narrowboat-museum, anchored by the Quai de Sambre and discover what the daily waterway life used to be like in the region.
  • Trinkhall Museum: an art museum in Liège
    Liège

    Trinkhall Museum: an art museum in Liège

    The Trinkhall Museum invites you, through its permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, to discover the incredible pieces created from mentally disabled artists.
  • Musée Grétry (Liège)
    Liège

    Musée Grétry (Liège)

    This museum, dedicated to André-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), a master of comic opera, is located in his native home. Paintings, miniatures sculptures, engravings, personal objects... give a fantastic insight into this musician's Liège. 
  • Water and Fountain Museum | Ottignies
    Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve

    Water and Fountain Museum | Ottignies

    The Water and Fountain museum, in the Domaine provincial du Bois des Rêves (Ottignies), offers a fantastic outdoor experience. Following your guide, you will learn about the local legends inspired by ponds, rivers, lakes... and much more.
  • The Eben-Ezer tower and its silex museum
    Bassenge

    The Eben-Ezer tower and its silex museum

    If you are looking for extraordinary, off the beaten path architectural gems in Wallonia, look no further. The Eben-Ezer tower, crowned with impressive winged animals, seems straight out of a Lord of the Rings or Games of Throne scene.
  • Museum 40-44 Lieutenant Cook in Monceau-Imbrechies
    Monument in memory of the first American soldiers killed on Belgian soil during the Liberation on September 2, 1944
    Monceau-Imbrechies

    Museum 40-44 Lieutenant Cook in Monceau-Imbrechies

    Immerse yourself in the world of the Second World War and visit the stable where the first American officer, Lieutenant Cook, died during the Liberation of Belgium.
  • The Musée de la route: an original theme and scenography
    A dragonfly sits on a flower
    Welkenraedt

    The Musée de la route: an original theme and scenography

    The Musée de la route (road museum) retraces the evolution of road surfaces through time, with quite an unexpected scenography!
  • The Musée gaumais in Virton
    Virton

    The Musée gaumais in Virton

    This exceptional museum in the province of Luxembourg presents archeology, art, civil and religious ethnography, industrial and popular art, folklore legends, regional furniture and traditions, all linked to the Gaume region.
  • Picardy Wallonia | The Paul Duhem FoundationPicardy Wallonia | The Paul Duh
    Exhibition space of the Paul Duhem Foundation in Beloeil, Belgium
    Quevaucamps

    Picardy Wallonia | The Paul Duhem FoundationPicardy Wallonia | The Paul Duh

    The Paul Duhem Foundation, in Quevaucamps (Province of Hainaut), presents the creations of many artists from Belgium or the the North of France.
  • The fort of Battice
    Battice

    The fort of Battice

    Just 17 km from the border, the fort of Battice was one of the first locations attacked by the German army on May 10, 1940. Built in the 30s, this garrison sheltered 750 men, of which 34 lost their life the first 12 days of the siege.
  • Musée de la 83rd Infantry Division at Bihain
    A dragonfly sits on a flower
    Vielsalm

    Musée de la 83rd Infantry Division at Bihain

    Discover this small museum dedicated to the 83rd American Infantry Division which participated in the Battle of the Ardennes a few kilometres from Vielsalm
  • Galerie du Beffroi | Namur
    Namur

    Galerie du Beffroi | Namur

    La Galerie du Beffroi, in the centre of Namur, hosts celebrates contemporary artists and collective exhibitions alike.
  • NATECOM | A Nature and Environment Centre in Leval-Trahegnies
    Binche

    NATECOM | A Nature and Environment Centre in Leval-Trahegnies

    Natecom is a pioneer in Belgium when it comes to promoting Binche's former mine heaps, and has been since 1970. Its Nature and Environment Interpretative Centre aims at helping the public to understand how important protecting the ecosystem is.
  • La Maison Ternell | A nature centre in Eupen
    Eupen

    La Maison Ternell | A nature centre in Eupen

    Located in the Hautes Fagnes, this nature centre is the ideal start of walks in the region
  • Armand Pellegrin museum | Hélécine
    Hélécine

    Armand Pellegrin museum | Hélécine

    Located in Hélécine, the Pellegrin Museum is a real journey through time: a way to experience a school day of yesteryear.
  • Musée du Miel at Lobbes, discovering bees and honey
    A dragonfly sits on a flower
    Lobbes

    Musée du Miel at Lobbes, discovering bees and honey

    The Honey Museum, a place to discover bees and honey welcomes you on the site of the provincial domain of the Relais de la Haute Sambre in Lobbes ....
  • Waudrez Gallo Roman museum
    Waudrez

    Waudrez Gallo Roman museum

    The Waudrez Gallo-Roman museum, located on the Vicus of Vodgariacum, offers a real journey through time...
  • Cristal Discovery at the Château du Val Saint Lambert (Seraing)
    Building of the Crystal Discovery Museum at the Château du Val Saint Lambert in Seraing
    Seraing

    Cristal Discovery at the Château du Val Saint Lambert (Seraing)

    Come and discover the secular history of the Val Saint Lambert site, as well as the glass work techniques used in the old Cistercian abbey.
  • Musée de la vie paysanne et de l'école d'autrefois, Virton
    Montquintin

    Musée de la vie paysanne et de l'école d'autrefois, Virton

    The Dîme farm, in the medieval village of Montquintin, houses the Museum of Peasant Life and the school of yesteryear. Built in the 18th century, the building offers a unique architectural structure near Virton (province of Luxembourg).
  • La Maison de l'Imprimerie et des Lettres de Wallonie in Thuin
    Thuin

    La Maison de l'Imprimerie et des Lettres de Wallonie in Thuin

    La Maison de l'Imprimerie, an active technical museum dedicated to the paper trades, is home to a large collection of printing equipment. Come and learn more about this fasrimerie, a technical museum in activity dedicated to the paper trades, houses an important collection of printing equipment ....
  • Arlon's Archaeological Museum
    Arlon

    Arlon's Archaeological Museum

    This Archaeological Museum features a Gallo Roman section made quite unique by its Galleria Lapidaria. Add 425 sculpture from funerary monuments and civilian buildings: quite a fascinating journey through time...
  • MAGMA:marble museum in Sivry-Rance
    Rance

    MAGMA:marble museum in Sivry-Rance

    Discover the fascinating history of marble in this recently renovated museum, located in Rance.
  • Château de Petit-Leez | Gembloux
    Grand-Leez

    Château de Petit-Leez | Gembloux

    Ideally located between Brussels and Namur, the Château de Petit-Leez invites you to take a stroll through its park, its contemporary art exhibitions, as well as a permanent collection of sculptures from Zimbabwe.
  • TAMAT: Tournai contemporary centre for textile arts
    Tournai

    TAMAT: Tournai contemporary centre for textile arts

    The historic town of Tournai is home to TAMAT, the Centre for Tapestry, Wall Arts and Textile Arts of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
  • Musée archéologique de la Haute-Meuse | Godinne
    Godinne

    Musée archéologique de la Haute-Meuse | Godinne

    Nestled in a former farm (built in1623 and a listed monument), the MAHM ( Musée archéologique de la Haute-Meuse) is a museum on archaeology in Godinne. A fantastic opportunity to travel through time.
  • Musée de Folklore vie Frontalière - MUSEF | Mouscron
    Mouscron

    Musée de Folklore vie Frontalière - MUSEF | Mouscron

    Located in the Province of Hainaut (within easy reach of both Flanders an France), the Musée de Folklore de Mouscron (MUSEF) reveals life along the borders between 1850 and 1950: reconstructions of typical interiors, rich themed collection and artisanal work.
  • The Vieille Montagne museum in La Calamine
    Kelmis

    The Vieille Montagne museum in La Calamine

    Nestled in a stunning Art Deco building, the Musée Vieille Montagne focuses on the political, industrial and social history of the Moresnet-Neutre region, known for mining calamine (a mix of zinc carbonate and ferric oxide).
  • The Belgian Commando Battalions museum in Flawinne
    Flawinne

    The Belgian Commando Battalions museum in Flawinne

    The Commando Museum in Flawinne retraces the story this Belgian elite fighting force, from its creation in 1942 to today. Visitors can learn about the many military campaigns the soldiers took part in and see the equipment, weapons and vehicles used by the battalions.
  • Musée Monopoli | Province of Namur
    Flostoy

    Musée Monopoli | Province of Namur

    Nothing to do with the game! Renato Monopoli, fascinated by all kind of automatons (singing, moving, surprising...) started gathering them.
  • Les Bateliers: a museum complex in Namur
    Façade of Namur Decorative Arts Museum
    Namur

    Les Bateliers: a museum complex in Namur

    Les Bateliers, a cultural complex in Namur, is home to the Museum of Decorative Arts  and will, in time, welcome the Archaeological Museum
  • Tour Salamandre
    Beaumont

    Tour Salamandre

    Last relic of the fortified enclosure that once surrounded the town of Beaumont, the Salamandre Tower houses a small museum of local history ...
  • The Saint-Pierre mountain and the Maison de la Montagne (Lanaye)
    Visé

    The Saint-Pierre mountain and the Maison de la Montagne (Lanaye)

    The Saint Pierre mountain marking the border between Wallonia, Flanders and the Netherlands, is a limestone massif with its own microclimate. Visitors stopping at the Maison de la Montagne Saint Pierre can learn of its rich fauna and flora in an interactive way.
  • The stone and quarry museum in Maffle
    A dragonfly sits on a flower
    Maffle

    The stone and quarry museum in Maffle

    Blue stone has been cut and sculpted in Maffle since the Middle Ages: both a skill and an art... Want to know more? This museum will tell you all about this industry both locally and in Europe. The building, right in in the former quarries, used used to be one of the site's managers home.
  • The Floreffe Abbey
    Floreffe

    The Floreffe Abbey

    Situated on a promontory overlooking the Sambre Valley, the Floreffe Abbey enjoys the status of being listed as one of Wallonia’s Special Heritage Sites. The building, founded by Saint Norbert in 1121, contains many artistic, architectural and historic treasures.
  • The 1940 French Cavalry Corps museum
    Orp-Jauche

    The 1940 French Cavalry Corps museum

    Led by General Blanchard, General Prioux' regiment was tasked to help organise the First Army. This event, which took place in May 1940, was the first WW2 battle with tanks.
  • The Recht slate quarry
    Recht

    The Recht slate quarry

    In this spectacular quarry, visitors can admire the impressively high rooms where the local Recht slate was mined. The 800 m long trail includes an observation bridge offering a memorable panorama on the site.
  • Musée du Souvenir Mai 1940
    Anhée

    Musée du Souvenir Mai 1940

    Haut-le-Wastia was the first village in the path of the German tanks after they had crossed the Meuse near Dinant. The Museum, spread across three floors of the old school, concentrates on the three-day battle in the area.
  • Château de l'Avouerie d'Anthisnes | Beer and Pékèt museum
    Anthisnes

    Château de l'Avouerie d'Anthisnes | Beer and Pékèt museum

    L’Avouerie, former residence of the Hauts Voués, opens the doors of its 17th century castle and museum dedicated to beer and pékèt.
  • Bulge Relics Museum
    A dragonfly sits on a flower
    Vielsalm

    Bulge Relics Museum

    Just 7 km from the centre of Vielsalm, this museum exhibiting relics from the Battle of the Bulge was put together by a passionate family.
  • Stone interpration centre | Sprimont
    View of the indoor room of the Centre d'interprétation de la pierre in Sprimont
    Sprimont

    Stone interpration centre | Sprimont

    Nestled in the former Sprimont quarries, this interpretative centre offers a full immersion in the world of fossils and minerals.
  • Herstal museum
    Herstal

    Herstal museum

    Nestled in a bourgeois mansion built in 1664, this museum retraces the history of the area from the Middle Ages to the present days.
  • Habay-la-Neuve