Charlotte de Witte - Brussels (Original Mix) [NovaMute]

you know, there are many interesting and strange things to see in, "Brussels", (the capital of Belgium, in the central part of the country; population 1,048,491 2008. The headquarters of the European Commission is located here. Flemish name Brussel), Brussels is home to a number of weird, quirky, unusual museums. These offbeat museums seem to pop up and shut down with frequency (it is with deepest sorrow that we must regretfully inform you that the Museum of Underwear and the Museum of Cats have both closed as of this posting). Luckily, there are still plenty weird museums in Brussels left in their wake. Here’s a list of our favorite unique, weird, and offbeat museums in Brussels. If you thought museums were boring and learning stuff was lame, think again. Museum of Fantastic Art: As if the title isn’t enticing enough, one description says fantastical, bizarre and weird creations, sculptures and pictures and elsewhere, fantastic history of the biosynthesis works of professor D. Who’s professor D? What’s biosynthesis? Does it matter??!!. Cost: €6 and a small piece of your soul. Magritte Museum: Sassy surrealist pop art, from the cheeky man who painted a picture of a pipe, and wrote this is not a pipe underneath it.. Sarcastic artists are the best. Cost: FREE with the Brussels Card.  Belgian Museum of Freemasonry: Because we may have quietly developed a theory that Brussels & the whole of Europe, are actually being run by the Illuminati, #staywoke Cost: FREE with the Brussels Card, but your eyes will be opened forever. Museum of the Black Sisters: Not at all related to the African Diaspora, but in fact about nuns and the black plague, which is rad. Mysteriously, it’s only open for 2 hours a week, on Wednesdays. Cost: €5 and the bubonic plague.  Spontaneous Art Museum: We were hoping that this was a museum full of people spontaneously bursting into fits of song and dance and painting and such. It’s not, but it’s just as interesting. The cheeky description on the Brussels Museum website describes it as a “bewildering journey through non-conventional art forms” and then says a bunch of other sassy stuff about how weird it is. Yes. Sold.  Cost: Somewhere between €1 and €2, plus abandoning all of your aesthetic preconceptions. Clockarium: A whole museum just for art deco clocks!!?!?!?!? Is this real life?!, You can only tour this masterpiece on Sundays, at 3:05 pm sharp. Also, the tour is in French. Who cares? Worth it. Cost: €6, and the burning desire to stock your home, with art deco clocks. Clockarium Website Sewers Museum: Exactly what it sounds like.  Cost: FREE with the Brussels Card, but you’ll need to do laundry ASAP. Art & Marges Museum: Outsider art from artists outside of the mainstream, such as differently-abled and mentally challenged artists. Prepare to have all of your assumptions, about artists destroyed. Cost: FREE with the Brussels Card, and you’ll have to check your privilege at the door, International Puppet Museum: Puppets are an important part of the history of Brussels, thanks to some insecure king, years ago who made plays illegal, because they were making fun of him, but agreed to let puppet theatres exist for the children. The puppet theatres made fun of him too, but secretly. Also, how creepy must this museum be, for the poor janitor who has to clean it late at night? Cost: €9 and Chucky-esque nightmares for weeks, after your visit. Puppet Museum Website Museum of Erotics and Mythology of Brussels: Aka the Museum of Sexy Sex. Museums of the Far East: King Leopold II, who was a complete asshole, had an Asian fetish, so he built a quasi-racist Asian-inspired pavilion (it’s totally unauthentic and a poor representation of an entire continent, but it IS a gorgeous building) and a stunning Japanese garden with some of the billions he made exploiting and mass-murdering African natives in the Congo. While you’re strolling through Belgian Hitler’s palacial estate, think of the blood that was spilled to create it. (Note: there’s a LOT of controversy surrounding Belgium’s bloody history in the Congo. Royal Museum for Central Africa, which has its own shady and racist past to overcome, is currently under renovation, ostensibly to take a good hard look at itself.) Cost: Currently closed for safety purposes, whatever that means. Museums of the Far East Website Toy Museum: According to the Brussels Museum website’s descriptions, the Toy Museum is basically a giant attic, filled with old toys that you can run around and play with, to your heart’s content, and there are no guards, and everyone gets to be a kid again. So like, heaven. Cost: FREE with the Brussels Card, but you’ll never want to grow up again. Toy Museum Information Choco Story (Museum of Cocoa and Chocolate): Choco-Story is a cute little chocolate museum with a ton of free samples.  There’s also a chocolate fountain. With Speculoos.  Cost: FREE with the Brussels Card, and like 10 pounds of chocolate weight as, standardz, hahahaha, :) #edio