- Duration: 1h30
- Price: 70 euro per group for a visit during the week (80 euro on weekends) + 3 euro per young person
- Conditions: reservation required no later than 3 weeks before the chosen date
General visit
The Museum has more than 100,000 collection pieces. Impossible to see them all in 90 minutes. This guided tour introduces our riches and why not make that more attractive by choosing a special theme? (colour, uniforms, animals, etc.)?
Group size: no groups in excess of 25 youngsters
Arms and Armour
Our “Arms and Armour” Gallery shows the evolution in the equipment of knights and displays the very first firearms. Leisure activities, such as tournaments, jousts and hunting, are also illustrated.
Group size: no groups in excess of 15 youngsters
Belgium in the 19th century
Our country was created in the 19th century and was then led first by King Leopold I and later by his son King Leopold II. The gallery also displays the equipment of the Belgian army when camouflage still had to be invented.
Group size: no groups in excess of 25 youngsters
First World War
Life in the trenches, soldiers’ equipment, armament, new technologies, camouflage, the situation in occupied Belgium, the conflict as a global event, ... as many themes that can be addressed in this room.
Group size: no groups in excess of 25 youngsters
Aviation
A journey through time, from lighter than air to current aircraft, over the fragile first aeroplanes and the Second World War fighters.
Group size: no groups in excess of 25 youngsters
Interwar period
The section dedicated to the era ranging from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second is key for understanding the processes that lead to the outbreak of a new conflict.
Group size: no groups in excess of 25 youngsters
Occupied Belgium during the Second World War
Daily life in Belgium during the Second World War: occupation, resistance, collaboration, repression and eventually liberation in September 1944.
Group size: no groups in excess of 25 youngsters