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Outer Brussels : Best of the Rest

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1. Musée Bruxellois de la Gueuze

If you visit only one brewery museum, this splendid cobwebby example should be it.
2. Maison d’Erasme

This charming red-brick house where Dutch humanist Erasmus stayed in 1521 is now a museum evoking his work.
3. Béguinage d’Anderlecht

Tiny béguinage (see Bruges) – now a museum showing how the béguines lived.
4. Basilique Nationale du Sacré-Coeur

The largest Art Deco building ever built? Remarkable view from its copper-green dome.
5. Parlement Européen

The Quartier Léopold is now dominated by the huge glass-and-steel barrel vault of the European Parliament building.
6. Muséum des Sciences Naturelles

See some of the first complete dinosaur skeletons.
7. Serres Royales

Fabulous royal greenhouses.
8. Musée René Magritte

Magritte’s modest abode.
9. Palais Stoclet

Deeply Art Nouveau mansion, built 1905–11.
10. Bruparck

Family leisure park.