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We recommend that you reserve a morning or an afternoon to discover this open-air museum in Bokrijk. A huge open-air museum of Belgian folklore with actors that goes through the different historical stages of Belgium up to the 60s included.

Minimum your visit will take you about 3-4 hours, being fast. It is very large in extension and with many activities to do with children.

Every Belgian comes to this museum at least once in their life. It is a museum that was created with the 1958 Brussels Expo, so it already has a long history.

Bruguel's interactive game at the Bokrijk museum what to see in Belgium with children

First of all, I will tell you about its interactive game for children and adults around the entire museum. A search game of 11 lost elements from Bruguel's painting «The combat between Don Carnal and Dona Cuaresma». A very fun totally digital game, scavenger hunt.

Just arriving at the museum they give you a bracelet with a chip and a pencil (so that later you don't touch the screens with your hands) that you activate with your name and taking a photo with a hat that you choose on touch screens.

Once registered, you have to find the 11 items stolen from Bruguel's painting. They are inside some crystal dice. As soon as you find a dice, you must pass your bracelet and the crystal cube lights up. Every three items found you have the right to a minigame on the touch screens that you will find on the museum tour. And to the 11 elements final prize!

A very fun gamification game that makes children walk through the museum without problem and concentrate at all times on what they see around them. The truth is that we loved it.

Other games and activities for children at the museum

But in addition to this interactive game, scavenger hunt and gamified with rewards, the Bokrijk museum is much more.

The children have a great time entering the different buildings and houses, seeing old trades and farm animals. There are also game points for children, traditional games, other physical skills, etc ...

You will also find workshops to make bread, to be tanners making their own leather bracelet or purse, etc ... Of course these workshops have a price for the materials.

When going during Covid, there were practically no actors, but we have been told that in full operation it is even more spectacular. As there are fewer actors, the price has also dropped and it is almost symbolic of € 5 for an adult and € 1 for a child. A price that is very good for everything the museum offers.