Always something to experience: culture, heritage and nature
Bruges is a multi-faceted city, spanning the past, present and future. A wide range of museums and sights are waiting for you to explore. By yourself, with your partner, with family or friends: you won't know where to look first! Delve into the city and soak up its rich cultural landscape, heritage and cordial residents. Experience Bruges to the fullest, and take in all it has to offer. We guarantee our charming streets, squares and parks will warm your heart.
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The Basilica of the Holy Blood was elevated to the status of Basilica in 1923, due to the special veneration of the Holy Blood...
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Historium Bruges is an experience attraction that transports you back to Bruges in the 15th century, a period when the city was flourishing as a centre of trade, art and culture...
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This hospital was first mentioned in records dating back to the 13th century, when the nuns cared for pilgrims, travellers and the sick here...
In the 17th century, Bruges had at least twenty abbeys and convents, and today more than a quarter of the historic city centre is directly linked to religious life...
This authentic brewery in the centre of Bruges is a family business with a tradition stretching back through six generations to 1856...
Step into the cobbled courtyard of the Adornes estate and it will immediately seem as if you have travelled hundreds of years back in time...
Windmills have graced Bruges’ ramparts ever since the construction of the outer city ramparts at the end of the 13th century...
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In these renovated workers’ houses you will discover more about daily life in Bruges during the 19th and early 20th centuries...
In the beautifully renovated – and probably oldest stone – building in Bruges, you can discover a remarkable and spine-chilling collection of instruments of torture and learn about the history of law, order and justice in the city...
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Discover the enchanting sounds played by the Bruges harp player Luc Vanlaere, who transforms the Old St John site into an oasis of tranquillity with his music...
From this mansion, the Liberty of Bruges (the countryside in a wide area around the city) was once governed...
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The church tower of the Gothic Our Lady of the Visitation Church was built in 1265 but never completed when funds ran out...
In the Cloth Halls, you can admire a fantastic collection of world-famous graphics and statues by the great artist Salvador Dalí...
Discover in an interactive way everything you ever wanted to know about the raw ingredients of beer, the brewing process, food pairing, beer in Bruges, trappist and abbey beers, etc...
The Bruges belfry is 83 meters high and contains a carillon with 47 fine-sounding bells, the brass weighing 27 tons in total...
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Did you know that Zeebrugge is the home port of the Askoy II, the legendary sailing yacht of singer Jacques Brel...
At the Seafront maritime experience site, you will find the first boulder gym on the Belgian coast...
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This 14th-century farmstead houses a merry working children’s farm with a superb recreation area and a gaggle of farmyard animals...
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Admire the beauty of the sun, moon and planets in glorious close-up, thanks to a powerful telescope in the Cozmix observation tower...
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With 'hospitality' as a central theme, the museum immerses you in the history of care and healing...
This literary and biographical museum about the life of Guido Gezelle (1830-1899), one of Flanders’ most famous poets, was established in the house where he was born, situated in a peaceful working-class district of the city...
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The Groeninge Museum provides a varied overview of the history of Belgian visual art, with the top-class paintings by the world-renowned Flemish primitives as a highlight...
At two locations, Sacred Books | Secret Libraries invites you to learn about authentic monastic life and spiritual heritage...
This didactical museum sketches the history of the potato, Belgian fries and the various sauces and dressings that accompany this most delicious and most famous of Belgian comestibles...
In the Presbytery, in the shadow of the Church of Our Lady of the Visitation, you will find the Saints Museum with a unique collection of statues of patron saints...
The Lace Centre has been housed in the renovated old lace school of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception...
