Are you interested in experiencing history firsthand? These are the best open air museums in Belgium:
1Atlantikwall Raversyde
OstendThe 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. 2Openluchtmuseum Bokrijk
GenkOpen 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 3Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum
AntwerpThe 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 4Musées du Fourneau Saint-Michel
Saint-HubertThe 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). 5Openluchtmuseum Bachten De Kupe
IzenbergeOpen 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 6Het Mijnmuseum Beringen
KoerselThe 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. 7Muze’um L - Light, Landscape & Line
RoeselareA 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 8Sculpture Park Hugo Voeten
GeelCollection 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 9RIVEO
HottonWhere 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 10Sart-Tilman Open-air Museum
LiègeThe 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.- 11
Archeosite and Museum in Aubechies
AubechiesThe 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. - 12
Ecomuseum and Archive of the Boom Brickworks
BoomThe 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 - 13
Openlucht-Bruegelmuseum
DilbeekThe Outdoor Bruegel Museum features 19 large weatherproof reproductions of paintings by Bruegel. - 14
Musée de la route
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Musée de la forêt, des lavandières, des outils d'autrefois
UcimontMusée 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. - 16
Geuzenberg - Musée de la Witloof
EvereThe 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.