Bruges is a fantastic destination for a city break. With charming canals and amazing architecture you really can't go wrong here, but there are also plenty of weird and wonderful museums to discover.
Since the Roman times, lace has been made in Europe, but the craft took off in Belgium in the 16th century. The traditional art of lace making is preserved and promoted at Bruges' Lace Center Museum or Kantcentrum, which traces its development in the city with a permanent exhibition displaying a variety of lace and explaining the process by which it's created. Lace making skills can also be learnt at the workshop there.
Taking you on a fascinating tour through the history, processes and personalities behind everyone's favourite treat, the Choco-Story is a museum in Bruges dedicated to all things chocolate. You'll discover how cocoa beans are grown, harvested, and then transformed into delicious, creamy chocolate.
Learn about the nutritional benefits of chocolate (well, we want to believe this!) and see the tempering process taking place at the hands of an expert chocolatier. Discover how chocolate has gone from being a stimulating drink enjoyed by the Aztecs to the ubiquitous snack it is today. If you're visiting Bruges, you really can't escape the delight of chocolate.
Discover the idiosyncrasies of lighting design around the world and through the ages at the Lumina Domestica museum. After all, it's about time we all stopped being kept in the dark about the development of domestic lighting! You'll be welcomed to the museum by the spirit of Aladdin's lamp - perhaps the most famous item of domestic lighting equipment in fiction. As the largest museum dedicated to interior lighting in the world, it has more than 6,500 lamps on show, and takes you back 400,000 years to early man's first use of fire to cook food and illuminate his surroundings at night.
Since the Roman times, lace has been made in Europe, but the craft took off in Belgium in the 16th century. The traditional art of lace making is preserved and promoted at Bruges' Lace Center Museum or Kantcentrum, which traces its development in the city with a permanent exhibition displaying a variety of lace and explaining the process by which it's created. Lace making skills can also be learnt at the workshop there.
Taking you on a fascinating tour through the history, processes and personalities behind everyone's favourite treat, the Choco-Story is a museum in Bruges dedicated to all things chocolate. You'll discover how cocoa beans are grown, harvested, and then transformed into delicious, creamy chocolate.
Learn about the nutritional benefits of chocolate (well, we want to believe this!) and see the tempering process taking place at the hands of an expert chocolatier. Discover how chocolate has gone from being a stimulating drink enjoyed by the Aztecs to the ubiquitous snack it is today. If you're visiting Bruges, you really can't escape the delight of chocolate.
Discover the idiosyncrasies of lighting design around the world and through the ages at the Lumina Domestica museum. After all, it's about time we all stopped being kept in the dark about the development of domestic lighting! You'll be welcomed to the museum by the spirit of Aladdin's lamp - perhaps the most famous item of domestic lighting equipment in fiction. As the largest museum dedicated to interior lighting in the world, it has more than 6,500 lamps on show, and takes you back 400,000 years to early man's first use of fire to cook food and illuminate his surroundings at night.
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