Many tourists who come to Brussels don't visit this beautiful museum. It has an impressive array of instruments, and the audio tour allows one to hear how each one of them sounds! More

and heard a free concert being played by students on old instruments with recently found old music More

The building itself is wonderfully restored and houses a huge number of instruments. You can hear most of them through the device that guides you through the museum. On top of the building there is a nice restaurant with a magnificent view of the city. More

If you stay in Brussels, you MUST visit the Grand-Place ! Even although I live In Brussels, I can’t get enough of it. The architecture is stunning, history is everywhere. But you will also like this place for the food and the Belgian beers. If I were a tourist, I would stay at the Novotel Brussels off Grand'Place or another... More

An extensive collection of musical instruments, ancient and modern. Unfortunately, the experience is marred by the fact that the museum is *very* poorly lit and that most information is available in Dutch and French only. The "audio guides" allow you to hear sounds from the instruments, but no audio presentation of information. Personally, I have a fairly extensive knowledge of... More

Bit boring for me,But sure you will enjoy if you like to see old instruments with a good polish More

The museum has a very interesting collection of instruments. Seeing really early versions of instruments that are quite familiar was a good way to understand how music has evolved. At many of the cases you can plug in and listen to music being played by various instruments. Unfortunately, we quickly discovered that at some of the cases with ancient or... More

This museum was quite good if you're interested in musical instruments, but you won't find out much if you only speak English. Also too many of the audio facilities for listening to the instruments needed repair. More

Very nice display of ancient musical instruments, particularly keyboards, stringed instruments, and also early brass (including info on the Sax family, "inventors" of the saxaphone! Audio "tour" pretty lame, as was mostly for the sound of the instruments. Very poor/non-existant English translations of signs. Very interesting none the less! Worth a visit! More