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Design Museum Brussels
A perfect place if you like observing the world differently, understanding the objects around you and exploring design as a remarkable tool for reading our societies, during a cultural visit in Brussels, alone, as a couple or with a curious family.
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Design Museum Brussels, understanding the world through objects
Just steps from the Atomium, the Design Museum Brussels invites visitors to look differently at the objects that populate our everyday lives. Born from the acquisition of a private collection by the Atomium, this museum is entirely dedicated to design from the 20th century to the present day, with a clear ambition: to make design understandable, accessible and profoundly human.
Design as a mirror of our societies
Here, design is not limited to form or aesthetics. It is presented as a witness to the economic, social, cultural, ideological and technical transformations of each era. Through the exhibitions, visitors discover how objects reveal our ways of life, our values, our innovations and sometimes even our contradictions.
The exhibition path encourages observation, questioning and connections. A chair, a lamp or an everyday object becomes a key to better understanding the world in which it was conceived.
Iconic and engaged collections
Since 2015, the Plastic Design Collection has explored the use of plastic in design, from the mid-1950s to the present day. This emblematic collection sheds light on the creative and technical landscape of the second half of the twentieth century, while also questioning our relationship with materials and their impacts.
In September 2020, the museum also inaugurated belgisch design belge, a permanent exhibition space dedicated to Belgian design. Here, visitors discover a rich, diverse and distinctive scene, revealing the talent, inventiveness and capacity for innovation of Belgian designers across the decades.
A vibrant, open and accessible place
Beyond its collections, the Design Museum Brussels aims to be a platform for reflection and dialogue. Temporary exhibitions, cultural programming and mediation activities bring together disciplines and perspectives in a deliberately cross-disciplinary, inclusive and accessible approach.
The museum also accompanies the major transitions of our time, questioning the role of design in the face of contemporary challenges. A place for awareness and education, it encourages the development of critical thinking and brings design closer to society, without ever making it elitist.
Between memory and future
By preserving and transmitting the material and immaterial heritage of design, the Design Museum Brussels also plays an essential role in the archiving of knowledge. It combines memory and foresight, heritage and innovation, to nurture understanding for present and future generations.
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Car park
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Coach park40 parking spots
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Maestro
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Reduced mobility visitors
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7 et 62 Heysel / Heizel - Bus 83 Heysel / Heizel
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6 Heysel /Heizel
Opening times
Every day from 11.00 to 19.00 • Also open on 24/12 and 31/12 from 11.00-17.00 - on 25/12 and 1/01 from 13.00 to 19.00
Price
adults: 11€ • seniors (65+): 8.50€ • children (13-18 years): 4€ • children (<13 years) free of charge
Guided tour
EN, FR, NL, DE. Subject to prior booking, minimum 15 days before the visit +32 2 669 49 21 or info@designmuseum.brussels
Tour length
1 hr
Group
Price (Min. 10 people) adults: 8.50€ • seniors (65+): 6.50€ • children (13-18 years): 3€ • children (<13 years) free of charge
Guided tour (Max. 20 people) subject to prior booking: info@designmuseum.brussels or +32 2 669 49 21 • Languages: EN, FR, NL, DE • Price: Contact us.
The Design Museum Brussels is a place dedicated to design and its history. Come and discover all the possibilities of design creation, in all its facets, from the 20th century to the present day. And get there by train, that's class!
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Events
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Opening times
16/10/2026 - 07/03/2027: * monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 11:00 to 19:00
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Price
Etudiants: 6,00 € - < 12 ans: 0,00 € - Normal: 8,50 € - Seniors: 6,50 € - Pass musées: 0,00 € - Article 27: 1,25 €
From 16 October 2026 to 7 March 2027, the Design Museum Brussels presents Identita – The Story of Czech Graphic Design, an exhibition dedicated to more than a century of graphic design in the Czech Republic. The exhibition explores the role of graphic design in shaping the country’s identity and bears witness to the profound political, social and cultural changes that have marked its history.
Located in Brussels, the capital of Belgium and home to the main institutions of the European Union, the Design Museum Brussels also aims to serve as a showcase for European creativity and the diversity of its design cultures. With this in mind, the museum regularly hosts temporary exhibitions that offer a particular European country’s perspective on its history and design culture. Identita is part of this initiative, inviting visitors to Design Museum Brussels to discover the history and distinctive characteristics of Czech graphic design, while placing them within a broader European context.
Graphic design plays an important role in the way a country presents itself and shapes its identity. Posters, books, magazines, logos and national symbols not only tell the story of their time, but also reflect the social developments of their era. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the development of graphic design in the Czech Republic, and, prior to 1993, in Czechoslovakia, has therefore been closely linked to the country’s turbulent history. The 20th century brought profound changes, from the establishment of an independent state and two world wars to the succession of two totalitarian regimes. After 1989, society and the economy underwent a fundamental transformation, with the transition from a socialist planned economy to a market economy. All of these developments were reflected in the country’s graphic culture.
Through original works and reproductions, the exhibition introduces visitors to some of the most striking examples of Czech graphic design and to the designers behind them. Each work is presented within its cultural, historical and political context. This makes it possible to see how graphic design and society have influenced one another over the years.
Identita at the Design Museum Brussels brings this story to a new audience, offering visitors the opportunity to discover how Czech graphic design evolved over the course of nearly a century in dialogue with politics, technology, everyday life and cultural trends. The exhibition is curated by Filip Blažek and Linda Kudrnovská, in collaboration with curator David Korecký and the team at the Design Museum Brussels for the Brussels presentation.
The touring exhibition Identita is a joint project of the Typo association, Mowshe studio, the Museum of Literature and the network of Czech Centres. The graphic design was created by Marvil studio. The architectural design was developed by Adam Blažek, Jan Kloss and Matěj Činčera of studio Okolo.
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Price
Etudiants: 8,00 € - < 12 ans: 0,00 € - Jeunes: 4,00 € - Normal: 11,00 € - Seniors: 8,50 € - Article 27: 1,25 €
Join us on 15.11.2026 at Design Museum Brussels for Children’s Arts Day (Kunstendag voor Kinderen) and create a little book that’s all about you!
“Me and…” my favorite ice cream, my best friend, my bicycle, a balloon or a book? Or perhaps something completely different? What would you like to show in your book?
Who am I? What do I like? What makes me who I am? During this creative workshop, make your own little fold-out book and share a little about yourself using stamps you design and make yourself.
Play with shapes and colors, fold your pages and create a unique little fold-out book. You can even invent a symbol that represents you, like your very own logo!
The workshop is suitable for different ages. Younger children can print the things they like, while older children can explore the idea of identity in a creative way.
As part of Children’s Arts Day (https://www.uitinvlaanderen.be/kunstendagvoorkinderen)
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Opening times
20/11/2026 - 07/03/2027: * monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 11:00 to 19:00
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Price
Normal: 11,00 € - Article 27: 1,25 €
The Design Museum Brussels presents a unique exhibition dedicated to Pierre Lallemand, an architect and designer from the contemporary Belgian scene. Through a rich and well-documented exhibition route, visitors are invited to discover more than thirty years of creative work at the crossroads of design and architecture.
Preparatory drawings, models, prototypes, objects, furniture, and experimental pieces mark the exhibition and reveal the singular universe of a creator for whom each project is a form of research in itself. The exhibition highlights a body of work in which technical rigour is in constant dialogue with formal freedom, as well as with a critical reflection on our built environment.
Trained in Brussels at the end of the 1970s, Pierre Lallemand developed an early, highly personal approach to design, shaped by experimentation, attention to detail, and a direct relationship with manufacturing. The first part of the exhibition looks back at his beginnings on the Brussels scene of the 1980s, notably through his first lighting designs shown at Galerie Théorème. These pieces already demonstrate an interest in hybrid objects, oscillating between function and sculptural expression.
The exhibition then explores the international dimension of his career. Visitors discover how his experiences in Italy, within the Milan-based firm BBPR, and later in the United States working with César Pelli, profoundly influenced his way of thinking about space, from furniture to architecture, from object to city. This global vision is reflected in the wide variety of projects presented: bicycles, sailboats, sculptures, furniture and architectural studies.
Throughout the exhibition, a coherent and committed approach emerges, in which each work is conceived as an act of visual thinking. For Pierre Lallemand, designing means questioning form, use, and the poetic dimension of the objects that surround us.
The Design Museum Brussels offers an immersive journey into a body of work in constant motion, shaped by the technical, urban, and cultural challenges of our time, and invites visitors to (re)discover design as an open, experimental field, deeply connected to the way we inhabit the world.
