Museum of Folk Life

In these renovated workers’ houses you will discover more about daily life in Bruges during the 19th and early 20th centuries. You will visit a classroom, tailor’s workshop, pharmacy, confectionary and grocery store. The top floor is reserved for temporary exhibitions. A confectioner fills the museum with sweet scents every first and third Thursday of the month. You can take a break in the museum inn and its atmospheric inner garden, where you can also try a selection of folk and children’s games.

As if time has stood still

In the Volkskundemuseum (Museum of Folk Life) 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

Aristide, the black cat, is the museum mascot. Perhaps our cat will come and purr at your feet as you enjoy a cool Bruges beer in the museum inn.

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.