Primary School Guided Visits
- Duration: 1h30
- Price: 70 euro per group for a visit during the week (80 euro on weekends) + 3 euro per child
- Conditions: reservation required no later than 3 weeks before the chosen date
General visit
The Museum has more than 100,000 collection pieces. Impossible to go around in an hour and a half. This guided tour will give you an overview of our riches and why not make it more attractive by choosing a common thread (the color, the uniform, the animals, etc.)?
Group size: no groups in excess of 25 children
Belgium in the 19th century
The 19th century saw the birth of our country, the reigns of Leopold I and his son Leopold II. This room also allows you to discover the equipment of the Belgian army at the time when camouflage did not yet exist.
Group size: no groups in excess of 25 children
Arms and Armour
There is nothing like a visit to our hall to illustrate the military aspect: from the equipment of the knight to the appearance of firearms, through leisure activities (jousting, parade, hunting).
Group size: no groups in excess of 15 children
First World War
Life in the trenches, soldier's equipment, armament, new technologies, camouflage, the situation in occupied Belgium, the global aspect of the conflict, ... so many themes that can be addressed in this room.
Group size: no groups in excess of 25 children
Aviation
A walk through time, from lighter than air to current machines, passing through the fragile first planes and the cabins of the Second World War.
Group size: no groups in excess of 25 children
Interwar period
The section devoted to the period from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second is an essential space for understanding the processes that lead to the outbreak of a new conflict.
Group size: no groups in excess of 15 children
Public: starting from the 5th grade
Belgium occupied during World War II
The daily life of Belgians during the Second World War: life under occupation, resistance, collaboration, repression and finally the liberation of the country in September 1944.
Group size: no groups in excess of 15 children
Public: starting from the 5th grade
Introduction to the two World Wars (only in French)
Through the stories of a series of well-known and lesser-known historical figures, pupils will discover the broad outlines of the First and Second World Wars. The reasons for the Great War, life in the trenches, the Unknown Soldier, Nazism, the Resistance, the Shoah, the liberation... these are just some of the themes covered during the hour-and-a-half visit.
Group size: no groups in excess of 15 children
Public: starting from the 3th grade to the 6th grade
This visit is just an introduction to the subject. Teachers can use these sheets to work on the subject in class after the visit.