Museum Hof van Busleyden with children
From March 2022 onwards, the exterior of the museum will be undergoing thorough restoration. That is necessary in order to be able to continue to present the valuable works in the museum. The permanent exhibition will therefore not be accessible until the autumn of 2023. The museum will, however, remain open with two top exhibitions in the exhibition space and with museum experiences at historic locations in the city.
Scheduled Exhibitions 2023:
- October 28, 2022 – June 25, 2023: Hidden gems.
More information: www.hofvanbusleyden.be/restoration
Family-friendy Tour
Families with children can explore the museum during a fun, tailor-made family-friendly tour. Hieronymus rolls out the red carpet for you, his special guests. Young visitors can use a map with sixteen “doors” to find their way through all the museum’s rooms. Behind every door, they will discover an activity or a reference to one of the golden cubes in the various museum galleries.
The golden cubes are the main feature of this family tour. The tour has a creative challenge in store for everyone, whether you like to think, draw, build, invent or do something. Put together your own procession with fun rod puppets, which will start to move, like a shadow play, once you close the cube. Or play a board game about power strategies with the whole family. Do you have bundles of imagination? Then create your own fantastic creature or a Burgundian image for yourself.
In rooms without a cube, a simple question or activity ensures the continuity of your tour. Your tour ends in the attic, where children can transform their map into their own version of an Enclosed Garden, which they can take home as a little souvenir of their visit. You can also listen to a radio play here, titled “Margareta’s Buren” (only in Dutch).
For whom?
The family tour has been developed in such a way that families can choose how many and which activities they want to do during the tour. The tour combines content with fun elements, and has been developed with children between the ages of 6 and 10 years of age in mind. The idea is also to encourage (grand)parents and children to work together, to promote intergenerational play.
The family tour is available in Dutch and English.
Opening hours
| Monday | closed. |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10 h. - 17 h. |
| Wednesday | 10 h. - 17 h. |
| Thursday | 10 h. - 17 h. |
| Friday | 10 h. - 17 h. |
| Saturday | 10 h. - 17 h. |
| Sunday | 10 h. - 17 h. |
The museum is always open until 10 pm on the first Thursday of the month.
Closed: December 24, 25, 31 & January 1.
Admission
12 EUR | standard admission
10 EUR | residents of Mechelen, groups
2 EUR | 13-26 yo
2 EUR | UiTpas with social tariff
Tickets
- At the museum’s ticket office
- Online (Dutch) and through Visit Mechelen
More information about the different rates can be found here.
Where
Museum Hof van Busleyden, Sint-Jansstraat 2a, 2800 Mechelen
