Volkskundemuseum (Folk Museum)

As if time has stood still

In the Volkskundemuseum (Folk Museum) you learn about ordinary daily life in Bruges in the 19th and early 20th centuries. You enter an old classroom, an old pharmacy, a tailor’s workshop, a confectionery store, or grocery store. Time seems to have stood still in these restored labourer's dwellings. All the rooms have a treasury of old items: tobacco products, neatly cut pipe heads, pilgrimage pennants, old children’s games, and cake and chocolate moulds.

For our younger visitors the Volkskundemuseum is a discovery, whilst for the elderly generation it’s a nostalgic glance back to the times of yesteryear.

Activities and exhibitions

The upstairs floor of the museum is reserved for temporary exhibitions.

Every first and third Thursday afternoon of the month, the sweet maker fills the museum with deliciously sweet aromas, until 21 September 2023. The sweet baker will return in 2024.

You can take part in folk games in the temperate indoor gardens or come to the friendly Mid-winter Festival in December.