All open air museums to visit in Belgium

Experience history come to life at open-air museums in Belgium. These museums feature historical buildings, reenactments, and interactive exhibits in an outdoor setting.

Are you interested in experiencing history firsthand? These are the best open air museums in Belgium:

  1. Atlantikwall Raversyde1

    Atlantikwall Raversyde

     Ostend
    The Atlantic Wall Open Air Museum is located on the protected Provincial Domain of Raversijde. It features sixty structures, positions, bunkers and batteries, from the two world wars connected by open and underground passages. It is one of the best preserved remnants of the Atlantic Wall in Europe.
  2. Openluchtmuseum Bokrijk2

    Openluchtmuseum Bokrijk

     Genk
    Open air museum Bokrijk consists of reconstructed and furnished buildings, and small buildings from different areas and periods in Flanders, from sty to clergy houses. The collection includes 30,000 pieces of heritage that together illustrate daily life of the 17th century to 1950. Visitors experien
  3. Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum3

    Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum

     Antwerp
    The Middelheimmuseum is an open air museum with some 400 works of art. It provides an international overview of modern and contemporary art in the park, ‘Het Huis’, ‘het Kasteel’ and the ‘Braempaviljoen’. Among others, the museum displays works by Carl Andre, Jean Arp, Wim Delvoye, Alberto Giacomett
  4. Musées du Fourneau Saint-Michel4

    Musées du Fourneau Saint-Michel

     Saint-Hubert
    The Museums of Fourneau Saint-Michel include: le musée de la vie rurale en Wallonie (musée de plein air) (Museum of Rural Life in Wallonia, open-air museum) and le musée du fer et de la métallurgie ancienne (The Iron Museum).
  5. Openluchtmuseum Bachten De Kupe5

    Openluchtmuseum Bachten De Kupe

     Izenberge
    Open Air Museum Bachten De Kupe is a reconstructed farming village from the Westhoek. The museum consists of 46 authentic buildings and thousands of objects that revive the life of the past. A Houtland farmstead with all the trimmings is part of it: the house, the carriage house, the stables, a baki
  6. Het Mijnmuseum Beringen6

    Het Mijnmuseum Beringen

     Koersel
    The Mining Museum Beringen is located on the former mining site of Beringen. The museum is dedicated to mine mining. A reconstructed pillar shows the work in the underground and a model with sound and light shows the operation of the above-ground mine.
  7. Muze’um L - Light, Landscape & Line7

    Muze’um L - Light, Landscape & Line

     Roeselare
    A contemporary museum built at the light meridian in Roeselare. A Muze'um L exhibition - the L stands for Light and Landscape - whose appearance depends on the time of the day. Well thought-out architectural features turn the building into a giant sculpture providing light and shadows in keeping wit
  8. Sculpture Park Hugo Voeten8

    Sculpture Park Hugo Voeten

     Geel
    Collection Hugo Voeten is located in Art Center Hugo Voeten (indoor) in Herentals and Sculpture Park Hugo Voeten in Geel-Westerlo (outdoor). Both are unique environments displaying unique art in the green heart of the Antwerp Kempen region. They house the private collection of entrepreneur Hugo Voet
  9. RIVEO9

    RIVEO

     Hotton
    Where the rivers tell their story ! Open the door to RIVEO and enter the fabulous world of the river ! A surprising world of diversity, natural riches, a universe which we sometimes ponder, regularly encounter, yet often don't really understand. Cross the threshold: nature's treasures are just
  10. Sart-Tilman Open-air Museum10

    Sart-Tilman Open-air Museum

     Liège
    The Sart-Tilman Open Air Museum displays a collection of 110 pieces of art, providing an overview of contemporary outdoor sculpture of the last forty years in French-speaking Belgium.
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    Archeosite and Museum in Aubechies

     Aubechies
    The Aubechies Archaeosite and Museum consists of a 5,000-year journey back in time. It is an open-air museum with a reconstruction of prehistoric structures, protohistoric and Gallo-Roman plans, based on excavations carried out in the region. There is also a focus on ancient crafts.
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    Ecomuseum and Archive of the Boom Brickworks

     Boom
    The Ecomuseum and Archive of the Boom Brick tells the story of the Boom brick in a technical, social and urban planning framework. It also elaborates on other typical industries or aspects, including shipbuilding, diamond industry, slipper industry, residential centers and old clay pits associated w
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    Openlucht-Bruegelmuseum

     Dilbeek
    The Outdoor Bruegel Museum features 19 large weatherproof reproductions of paintings by Bruegel.
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    Musée de la route

     Plombières
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    Musée de la forêt, des lavandières, des outils d'autrefois

     Ucimont
    Musée de la forêt, des lavandières, des outils d'autrefois is an open-air museum that uses wooden characters to illustrate the various activities in the forest.
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    Geuzenberg - Musée de la Witloof

     Evere
    The Chicory Museum is dedicated to chicory cultivation. The museum displays in open air and covered areas material and tools donated by Jules Heymans, the last chicory grower of the municipality.