I do write a lot about the various museums & places of interest in Belgium, that I visit almost free of cost with the help of MuseumPASSmusées. While I do tag them together with the MuseumPASSmusées label, I realized that it would be better if I compile it all together! So here are the places that I visited which are included in MuseumPASSmusées!

A Museum pass is usually an annual subscription for 1 or more museums. While there are passes meant for 1 museum or 1 place of interest, that wouldn't work for me (unless if I was living in Paris in which case I'd definitely get a Louvre Museum pass!). I would really like to explore and see more places and lesser-known museums. So ideally I'd prefer the multi-site ones. 

The concept of Museum pass isn't new to me. When I was living in London, I had the English Heritage Pass. So as soon as I moved to Brussels, I searched to see if there are any multi-site passes here and voila, MuseumPASSmusées came up.

HOW MUCH DOES THE MUSEUMPASSMUSÉES COST?

If you're an adult above 18 yrs of age, it is worth it. Definitely. 200%. No doubt. I mean, just the 3 museums in Cinquantenaire Park in Brussels together costs €32 for 1 visit. Another day, on a trip to, say, Antwerp, if you buy a 24hrs Antwerp city card for €29, you're already spending €61. This is just 2 days' worth of places to see! With MuseumPASSmusées you can visit all these places and 200+ more museums multiple times for an entire year. It is an absolute no-brainer to invest in a MuseumPASSmusées even if you're staying in Belgium for 6 months or so, or even if you're living in the Netherlands or France for that matter if you love traveling and exploring various cities of Belgium. MuseumPASSmusées is just ridiculously cheap!

Plus..... You also get 50% off on 5 tickets of SNCB-NMBS!!!! Literally, this is one of the ways to save money when you're living in Belgium.

WHERE TO BUY MUSEUMPASSMUSÉES?

Online on the official website of MuseumPASSmusées or at the ticket office of one of the participating museums.

There are 200+ museums all over Belgium under MuseumPASSmusées now and it keeps increasing day by day. Check their map on the official website of MuseumPASSmusées.

Clicking the links below will take you to my blog posts about those museums

BRUSSELS MUSEUMS UNDER MUSEUMPASSMUSÉES THAT I'VE BEEN TO

1. MoOF (Museum of Original Figurines)
2. Comic Strip Museum
3. Brussels City Museum (Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles - Maison du Roi)
4. Garderobe Manneken Pis
5. Fashion & Lace Museum
6. Planetarium
7. Design Museum Brussels
8. Musée Horta
9. Art & Marges Museum
10. Halle Gate
11. Musical Instruments Museum
12. Art & History Museum (Cinquanternaire Museum)
13. AutoWorld
14. Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History
15. BOZAR
16. Palais du Coudenberg
17. La Fonderie (Museum of Industry & Labour)
18. Villa Empain (Fondation Boghossian)
19. Musée de la Médecine
20. Sewer Museum (Musée des Égouts)
21. KBR Museum
22. Royal Museum of Central Africa
23. Train World (not under MuseumPASSmusées anymore since 2021)

FLANDERS MUSEUMS UNDER MUSEUMPASSMUSÉES THAT I'VE BEEN TO

1. Meise Botanic Gardens (near Atomium)
2. In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper
3. OLVter Potterie, Brugge
4. Sint.Janshuismolen, Brugge
5. Brugge Belfry
6. Brugge City Hall
7. Brugse Vrije (former court of Brugge)
8. Sint-Janshospitaal, Brugge
9. O.L.V.-kerk Museum, Brugge
10. Groeningemuseum, Brugge
11. Design Museum, Gent
12. Sint-Peter's Abbey, Gent
13. Huis van Alijn, Gent
14. Gallo-Romain Museum, Tongeren
15. Jenever Museum, Hasselt
16. Fashion Museum, Hasselt
17. Bokrijk Openair Museum, Genk
18. M Museum, Leuven
19. Speelgoed Museum (Toys museum), Mechelen
20. Lier City Musuem
21. Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp
22. The Snijders&Rockox House, Antwerp
23. Museum MAS, Antwerp
24. Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp
25. Rubens House (Rubenshuis), Antwerp
26. National Museum of the Playing Card, Turnhout
27. Begijnhof Museum, Turnhout
28. Taxanderia Museum, Turnhout
29. Den AST Halle

WALLONIA  MUSEUMS UNDER MUSEUMPASSMUSÉES THAT I'VE BEEN TO

1. Malagne-Archeoparc Rochefort
2. Famenne Arts Museum (FAM), Marche-en-Famenne
3. Maison du patrimoine médiéval mosan, Dinant
4. Abbaye de Stavelot
5. Prehistomuseum, Flemalle
6. Aquarium Museum, Liege
7. Archeoforum, Liege
8. Strawberry Museum, Wepion
9. Namur Citadel Visitors Centre - Terra Nova
10. Le Bois du Cazier, Charleroi
11. Bois du Luc, La Louviere
12. Keramis Centre of Ceramics, La Louviere
13. Chateau de Seneffe
14. Grand Hornu, Mons
15. Silex's (Neolithic Flint Mines of Spiennes), Mons
16. Mons Belfry
17. Doudou Museum, Mons
18. Mundaneum, Mons
19. TAMAT Tapestry Museum, Tournai
20. Natural History Museum & Vivarium, Tournai
21. Folklore Museum, Tournai
22. Puppetry Museum, Tournai
23. Musee Herge, Louvain-la-Neuve
24. Musee L, Louvain-la-Neuve
25. Le Maison des Megalithes, Weris

So, how did I fare? Making the best out of the MuseumPASSmusées. So far I've renewed my subscription twice. So I've spent about €150 on this in the last 3 years, but I've visited the above list of 74 museums so far with it (of the 200+ museums under it), which doesn't count the 30+ visits to just AutoWorld alone (not kidding; the gentleman at the ticket office knows our names & faces), 3-5 visits each to Meise Botanic Gardens, Train World, Comic Strip Museum, Arts & History Museum and Military History Museum. PLUS I also used 10+ of their SNCB-NMBS 50% off tickets! I did a quick calculation and I have saved more than €500 easily (as well as my sanity with my toddler, if the weather is too bad to be outside)!!!

If you're living in Belgium, just buy this! If you have a toddler all the more reason to buy. especially right now - while once in while hiking in snow is great in winters, more often, being indoors inside a museum is just easier & more comfortable.