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Discover Mechelen with your head in the clouds!

Welcome to the Museum Hof van Busleyden! Step into this majestic and magnificent Renaissance palace in Mechelen, the capital of the Burgundian Netherlands.

Kazerne Dossin is a very special place of remembrance for Belgium. As 'SS Sammellager Mecheln', the Dossin barracks was a waitingroom for death for more than 25,000 Jews and...

Margaret of Austria was regent of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1507 and 1530. Her residential palace was the Hof van Savoye (Court of Savoy), the first renaissance...

Around 1560 the beguinage outside the city walls was destroyed. The beguines re-established themselves inside the city walls, where the Large Beguinage grew up. They bought up...

Het Anker brewery enjoys world fame for its 'Gouden Carolus' or Golden Charles beer. Founded in 1369, Het Anker is one of Belgium's oldest breweries. The three copper brew-kettles...

Leave by boat from Haverwerf, sail through the marina and the 'turning dock' and on through the historic centre, experiencing Mechelen from a different perspective! Along the way,...

Discover Belgian masterpieces from the period 1850-1950.

Here you walk on water!