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Open now · 17:00
Museum in Tervuren, east of Brussels, built from 1904 to designs by Charles Girault and opened in 1910 to present King Leopold II's Congo Free State. After renovation from 2013 it reopened in December 2018 as AfricaMuseum, showing ethnographic, natural-history and contemporary collections from Central Africa and presenting the colonial period and its legacy.
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Open now · 17:00
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.
Official site
Open now · 17:30
Memorial 1815 is the visitor centre of the Waterloo battlefield, south of the town in Braine-l'Alleud, opened in 2015 for the bicentenary of the battle of 18 June 1815. Its 2,000 m² exhibition shows uniforms, period objects, animated maps, a 33 m² model of the battle and a 4D film; its ticket also covers the Lion's Mound, the Panorama and Hougoumont.
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