This is a list of museums in Brussels, Belgium.
It includes museums situated in any of the municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region.
| Name | Image | Municipality | Type | Summary | ||||||
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| Woluwe-Saint-Lambert | Medicine | |||||||||
| Art | Collection of work by the painter Antoine Wiertz, housed in his former studio | - | Aquarium Brussels | Nature | --> | |||||
| Local | Collection of items related to Flemish culture in Brussels | |||||||||
| Archives of the City of Brussels | History | |||||||||
| City of Brussels | Literary | |||||||||
| Art & Design Atomium Museum (ADAM) | Art | Design of the 20th century | ||||||||
| Art | Permanent collection and temporary exhibitions of art by outsider artists, artists who are mentally unwell and artists outside the mainstream | |||||||||
| Transport | Vintage car museum | |||||||||
| Architecture | Town house designed by the architect Victor Horta in the Art Nouveau style | |||||||||
| Local | Historic beguinage and museum | |||||||||
| Cultural | Collection illustrating the history of freemasonry in Belgium | |||||||||
| Books | Private museum and library devoted to bookbinding | |||||||||
| History - Industry | Displays machinery from important local industries and exhibits relating to the area's economic and social history. Located in an old foundry. | |||||||||
| Food | Housed in an old windmill | |||||||||
| Transport | Collection of Brussels trams from different eras | |||||||||
| Archaeology | Ruins of a Franciscan convent under the former Brussels Stock Exchange | |||||||||
| Belgian Brewers Museum | Brewing | |||||||||
| Choco-Story Brussels | Food | |||||||||
| Comic strips | Belgian comic strips and their history | |||||||||
| History | Documents the national history of Belgium | |||||||||
| Cultural | Museum dedicated to the "Black Sisters", a Cellite religious congregation, located in the Basilica of Koekelberg | |||||||||
| Art | Working office of the writer Camille Lemonnier, paintings and sculptures | |||||||||
| Cantillon Brewery (Gueuze Museum) | Brewing | Small brewery making beers in the traditional gueuze, lambic and kriek styles, which also functions as a museum of Gueuze beer | ||||||||
| Architecture | Art Nouveau house designed by the architect Paul Cauchie | |||||||||
| Art | Temporary exhibitions of contemporary art | |||||||||
| Art | Also known as Bozar, hosts exhibitions of fine art, as well as concerts, theatre, dance and other cultural events | |||||||||
| Charlier Museum | Historic house | Belgian art museum in historic house | ||||||||
| Children's Museum | Children | |||||||||
| Museum of China – Scheut | Cultural | |||||||||
| Cinematek | Film | Museum of Cinema, with daily showings of films from the archive | ||||||||
| Cinquantenaire Museum (part of Royal Museums of Art and History) | History - Art | Historical and artistic artefacts from cultures around the world | ||||||||
| Brussels City Museum | History | History of Brussels, with an emphasis on its development over time and its art | ||||||||
| Art | Art Deco clocks | |||||||||
| Confederate Museum | History | Documents the history of the American Civil War | ||||||||
| City of Brussels | Art | |||||||||
| Art | Works by the painter and sculptor Constantin Meunier | |||||||||
| Fashion | Collection and exhibitions on the history of fashion and lace-making (a traditional industry of Brussels) | |||||||||
| Coudenberg – Former Palace of Brussels | Archaeology | Ruins of the Palace of Coudenberg and nearby buildings from the same era | ||||||||
| County of Jette Municipal Museum | Local | Local history of Jette county | ||||||||
| D'leteren Gallery | Transport | History of the D'leteren company and collection of its vehicles | ||||||||
| Historic house | The Dutch humanist writer Erasmus of Rotterdam once stayed in this house | |||||||||
| Art | Contemporary photography museum | |||||||||
| Evere Municipal Museum | Local | Local history of Evere county | ||||||||
| (part of the ULB) | Science | Physics museum | ||||||||
| Museum of Fantastic Art | Art | Fantastical, bizarre and weird creations, sculptures and pictures | ||||||||
| Museums of the Far East (Japanese Tower and Chinese Pavilion) (part of Royal Museums of Art and History) | City of Brussels (Laeken) | Art | ||||||||
| Fin-de-Siècle Museum | City of Brussels | Art | ||||||||
| Fine art | Major art gallery featuring fine art from the 15th to the 20th century by Belgian and international artists | |||||||||
| Géo De Vlamynck Atelier | Art | Studio of the artist, architect and designer | ||||||||
| Grand Serment Royal et de St-Georges des Arbalétriers | History | Museum of a royal guild of crossbow archers, displaying crossbows and the history of the guild | ||||||||
| Halle Gate (part of Royal Museums of Art and History) | History | History of Brussels and armaments. Located in one of the city gates of the second walls of Brussels | ||||||||
| Architecture | Museum of the life and work of Victor Horta situated in his former house and studio | |||||||||
| House of European History (HEH) | City of Brussels (EU Quarter) | History | Museum of European history and the history of European integration | |||||||
| (part of the ULB) | Anderlecht | Science | ||||||||
| International Puppet Museum - Peruchet | Ixelles | Puppetry | Museum and theatre with historic puppets from around the world | |||||||
| Museum of Illusions | Illusions | An interactive museum with a unique exhibition of illusions. Located in the old "La Gaite" theatre | ||||||||
| Art | Municipal museum with a permanent collection of paintings and hosting exhibitions | |||||||||
| Music | Museum and archive on jazz, and a venue for jazz concerts.[1] | |||||||||
| (part of the ULB) | Nature | Research garden open to the public | ||||||||
| Cultural | ||||||||||
| Art | Modern and contemporary art museum | |||||||||
| La Loge | Art | Contemporary art museum located in modernist building | ||||||||
| Librarium (Royal Library of Belgium) | Books | Displays items from the collection of the Royal Library | ||||||||
| Art | Life and work of the surrealist painter René Magritte | |||||||||
| Comic strips | Life and work of the comics artist Marc Sleen, best known for The Adventures of Nero | |||||||||
| Historic house | Former house of the poet Maurice Carême | |||||||||
| Ixelles | Medicine | |||||||||
| (part of the ULB) | Ixelles | Literary | ||||||||
| Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (MIMA) | Art | Street Art | ||||||||
| MigratieMuseumMigration (MMM) | Molenbeek-Saint-Jean | Migration | ||||||||
| Art | Located in the Basilica of Koekelberg | |||||||||
| Municipal Museum of Molenbeek (MoMuse) | Local | |||||||||
| Musical Instrument Museum (part of Royal Museums of Art and History) | Musical instruments | Located in a former Art Nouveau department store, displays its collection of 8000 musical instruments | ||||||||
| Fine art | Constituent part of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium; permanent displays of European painting from the 15th to the 18th centuries | |||||||||
| (part of the ULB) | Anderlecht | Science | ||||||||
| (MOOF) | Comic strips | Figurines of characters from comic strips | ||||||||
| History | History and displays of banking and the history of money | |||||||||
| History - Military | Museum about the Belgian Resistance during World War II | |||||||||
| Cultural | ||||||||||
| Woluwe-Saint-Lambert | Nature | |||||||||
| Palace of Charles de Lorraine (Royal Library of Belgium) | Historic house | Neoclassical palace | ||||||||
| City of Brussels (EU Quarter) | Politics | Visitors' centre of the European Parliament | ||||||||
| Video games | ||||||||||
| Planetarium of Brussels | City of Brussels (Laeken) | Science | Planetarium with various shows on astronomical themes | |||||||
| History | History of the police force | |||||||||
| Art | Art exhibitions | |||||||||
| Historic house | Former house of the surrealist artist René Magritte | |||||||||
| Nature | Natural history museum with a notable collection of dinosaur skeletons | |||||||||
| History - Military | Displays of Belgian military history, aircraft, armour and other arms and military vehicles | |||||||||
| Brewing | Displays on history of Belgian beer, and collection of beer bottles | |||||||||
| City of Brussels | Sewers | Museum dedicated to Brussels sewer network and access to a part of the network | ||||||||
| Art | Collection of works of naive and primitive art | |||||||||
| Art | Neoclassical pavilion designed by Victor Horta containing a marble relief by Jef Lambeaux | |||||||||
| Children | ||||||||||
| Rail transport | Railway museum located in Schaarbeek railway station | |||||||||
| Villa Empain | Ixelles | Historic house | Art Deco house | |||||||
| Museum David and Alice van Buuren | Historic house | Historic house and museum, furnished in Art Deco style | ||||||||
| Art | Contemporary art centre | |||||||||
| Woluwe-Saint-Lambert Municipal Museum | Local | |||||||||
| Museum of Zoology and Anthropology (part of the ULB) | Nature | Collection of skeletons and stuffed animals of a wide range of species |