What to see and visit in Brussels?
*walking distance from ULB
Museums
MIMA Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (Museum of Visual Arts)
Museum of Musical Instruments (Musée des instruments de musique)
Horta Museum (Musée Horta)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium:
Modern Museum (Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain)
Old Masters Museum (Musée d’Art ancient)
Magritte Museum (Musée Magritte)
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Museum (Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique)
House of European History (Maison de l’Histoire Européenne)
Museum and Gardens Van Buuren (Musée et Jardins Van Buuren)
Museum of Belgian Brewers (Musée des Brasseurs Belges)
Comic Strip Museum (Musée de la Bande Dessinée)
Sites, Monuments & Attractions
Town Hall (Hôtel de Ville) & Grand Place
Sablon:
Notre Dame du Sablon Church (Église Notre Dame du Sablon)
Sablon Antique Market (Marché du Grand Sablon)
Petit Sablon Square (Place du Petit Sablon)
Royal Palace (Palais Royal de Bruxelles)
Mont des Arts Gardens (Jardin du Mont des Arts)
St Michel and St Gudule Cathedral (Cathédrale Sts Michel et Gudule)
Cinquantenaire:
Cinquantenaire Palace and Park (Palais du Cinquantenaire)
Law Courts of Brussels (Palais de Justice)
Gardens of the Abbey of La Cambre* (Jardins de l’Abbaye de la Cambre)
Architecture
Free App Art Déco – Art Nouveau Brussels: a 9 km walking tour guide in English in Saint-Gilles featuring 42 highlights
Art nouveau/Art déco video
Art Nouveau
Horta Museum (Musée Horta)
Museum of Musical Instruments (Musée des instruments de musique)
Maison A Niguet & The art nouveau Daniel Ost shop Maison Saint-Cyr
Art Déco
Flagey Square (Place Flagey)*
Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts (Palais des Beaux-Arts)
Outside of Brussels
Cities such as Leuven, where the oldest university in Belgium is located (since 1425); Bruges, Gent and Antwerp with their century-old houses; Namur and Dinant with castles and cliffs, are worth a visit and easily accessible by train. Do not hesitate to ask your coordinator for more information.
Last but not least… Chocolate shops!
Most chocolate-makers have a shop on Place du Grand Sablon: Wittamer, Marcolini, Godiva, Neuhaus, Corné, Galler, Léonidas…