House of European History
Art Deco former children's dental clinic with fable murals, now a museum of European history.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the House of European History in Brussels opens with fable murals painted on a waiting-room ceiling for children too frightened to sit still for the dentist, and the American who paid for the clinic without ever visiting Belgium: George Eastman of Kodak. It follows architect Michel Polak's 1930s Art Deco building in Parc Leopold, Eastman's own end before it was finished, and the decades the clinic and then the empty building spent before the European Parliament reopened it as a history museum in 2017. Look up at painter Camille Barthelemy's foxes and crows, still watching over the room.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Comics Art Museum | Brussels
Art Nouveau warehouse of iron and glass by Victor Horta, now a museum tracing the comic strip's evolution.
Parlamentarium
Interactive visitor centre unpacking how a parliament of twenty four languages debates as one.
Brussels City Museum
Neo-gothic former bread market and market hall on a grand square, now a city history museum.
BELvue museum
Neoclassical townhouse built above the buried ruins of a royal palace lost to fire.
Royal Museum for Central Africa
Neoclassical colonial-era palace museum on Central Africa, renovated to confront its own history.
Musical Instruments Museum
Glass and iron Art Nouveau department store turned collection of over eight thousand instruments from around the world.