Explore Tervuren

Belgian Beer World is a beer museum that opened in September 2023 in the upper floors of the Bourse, the former Brussels Stock Exchange built in 1868–1873 on Boulevard Anspach. Interactive rooms cover the history of Belgian beer and how it is brewed, and the tour ends with a tasting at the rooftop bar.

The Wellington Museum occupies a former inn of 1705 in the centre of Waterloo, where the Duke of Wellington had his headquarters on the nights of 17 and 18 June 1815 and wrote his despatch on the victory. Its rooms present the campaign and the battle with weapons, prints and objects from the armies that fought, and it holds temporary exhibitions.

The National Basilica of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic basilica on the Koekelberg plateau at the head of Elisabeth Park, the largest church in Belgium. Leopold II laid the first stone in 1905, but the two world wars delayed building until 1970. The Art Deco design by Albert Van Huffel has a green copper dome 89 metres high with a panorama gallery.

The Atomium is a 102-metre structure on the Heysel Plateau in Laeken, built as the centrepiece of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and the architects André and Jean Polak, its nine steel-clad spheres model an iron crystal; six can be visited, with exhibitions and a view over the city from the top sphere.

Mini-Europe is a miniature park in Bruparck at the foot of the Atomium, opened in 1989. It shows around 350 buildings from about 80 European cities at a scale of 1:25, with working models such as trains, mills and an erupting Vesuvius, and ends with Spirit of Europe, an interactive exhibition about the European Union.

Design Museum Brussels occupies 5,000 square metres in the Trade Mart beside the Atomium. Opened in 2015 as the Art & Design Atomium Museum and renamed in 2020, it shows the Plastic Design Collection of plastic furniture and objects from the 1960s to the 2000s, a permanent display of Belgian design, and temporary exhibitions.

Aqualibi is an indoor water park in Wavre beside the Walibi Belgium theme park, opened in 1987 under glass pyramids with a tropical theme. It has a wave pool, whirlpools and slides; an expansion completed in December 2023 added four new slides and brought the park to nearly 8,000 m². It is open all year.

Walibi Belgium is a theme park of about 64 hectares in Wavre, south-east of Brussels, opened in 1975 by Eddy Meeùs. Its name combines Wavre, Limal and Bierges, and its grounds around a lake hold wooden and steel roller coasters, water rides and children's areas. The Aqualibi indoor water park stands next door.