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ARCHÉOPASS
ArchéoPass is a network made up out of Walloon institutions active in the archaeology sector, members of the association "Musées et Société en Wallonie" (MSW).
Thanks to the Archéopass advantage card, you benefit from a discount on the entrance rate at every member.
- All year round 2010
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Show your ArchéoPass on every visit...
You can obtain this advantage card at every member of the network.
- The Archéopass is offered to you after payment of one full rate ticket of one of the members.
- Valid for maximum 4 persons. It can not be changed for money nor be combined with other advantages.
- On presentation of this card, you get minimum 20% discount on the individual entrance rate on your next visit to another member of the network.
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Do you want to explore the archaeological world of the prehistory, the Gallo-Roman age and the Middle Ages (abbeys, castles, grottoes, archaeological sites, reconstructions, prehistoric recipes, medieval epics and other animations)?
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RECEPTION CENTRE PAYS DE GEMINIACUM - MUSEUM OF LIBERCHIE - DJANGO REINHARDT CENTRE (LIBERCHIES)The reception centre of the Pays de Geminiacum is the perfect start to fully enjoy your visit. |
ABBEY OF VILLERS-LA-VILLE (VILLERS-LA-VILLE)Take a walk in an architectural site located in a green setting to discover an exceptional heritage. Discover how monks lived in the Abbey between the 12th and 18th century. The visit will unveil parts of their everyday life punctuated with prayer and work.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER - CAVE OF SCLADINA (SCLAYN)Enter this extraordinary grotto, which is a real time machine, and discover numerous prehistoric animals. Amongst the bears, lions, hyenas and rhinoceroses, you will get to know a child, a young Neanderthal boy with an unusual destiny... Meet our archaeologists and discover what goes on behind the scenes of the excavation team's work, where passion and patience go hand in hand with natural sciences. |
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (NAMUR)Ancient Meat Market (late 16th c.). Listed monument.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (ARLON)This museum is without any doubt one of the richest museums in Belgium. Its Gallo-Roman section (galerie lapidaire) is unique in its genre in terms of quality and quantity of exhibits: more than 425 sculptures from funerary monuments and public buildings are on display. |
ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM (TOURNAI)The Archaeology Museum principally exhibits objects of prehistoric, Gallo-Roman and Merovingian archaeology. |
ARCHÉOFORUM (LIEGE)The Archéoforum, beneath the Place Saint-Lambert, offers a visit to the remains exposed during a series of archaeological excavations between 1907 and the present day. The true "historical heart" of the city, the Place has yielded the traces of nearly 9000 years of history. From the concrete entrance point on the îlot Tivoli, a reminder of the major works around the Place Saint-Lambert, to the gift and book shop, passing through the crypt dedicated to Saint-Lambert and the remains of the Vieux Marché, the visitor travels through ten scenographic settings each with its own different audio-visual atmosphere. A moving encounter with the history and splendour of the "Cité Ardente" from its origins to our own times. The site can only be visited accompanied by a specialist guide. |
ARCHEOSITE® AND MUSEUM OF AUBECHIES (AUBECHIES)Go on a journey 7000 years back to our past. This open-air museum introduces populations that have followed one another in our regions through various reconstructions based on the plans of archaeological digs.
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CELTIC MUSEUM (LIBRAMONT)A dive into our distant past, during the Celtic time: daily life, craftsmanship, beliefs and society. Barbarians, "our ancestors the Gauls"? To the contrary, it is a fascinating world revealing the archaeological excavations and which is reconstructed before your very eyes. |
COMMUNAL MUSEUM "DE LA PORTE" (TUBIZE)17th century farm, restored in 1963.
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COMMUNAL MUSEUM OF HERSTAL (HERSTAL)In this building, which is listed as seventeenth century Meuse region style, one can discover the folklore of a region and illustrations of everyday life in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. History, acheology (from the prehistory to the Middle Ages) and folklore of the commune and its surroundings. Charlemagne, from History to Legend. Souvenir of the Herstal battles in August 1914 and the war 1940-1945. Everyday life in the 19th century and early in the 20th century. Industries from Herstal.
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GALLO-ROMAN ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK OF MALAGNE - THE GALLO-ROMAN (ROCHEFORT)In the Belgian Ardennes, on the archaeological remains of one of the largest villas of Northern Gaul, you can discover the everyday life of the Gallo-Romans in Malagne.
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GALLO-ROMAN MUSEUM (ATH)Rufus, boatman of the ancient Pommeroeul, will take you on a journey through time. He will bring the old ports, fishermen, potters, metalworkers and cobblers back to life! He'll explain everything and invites you to spend a day like his contemporaries, the Gallo-Romans. Taste the atmosphere of a 2nd century town. This thanks to a revolutionary presentation with talking object, visual support and reconstruction of images... |
GAUME MUSEUM (VIRTON)Ancient convent of the Récollets from the end of the 17th century and modern wing from 1990. Collections spread out over more than 2000 m². Archaeology: Roman, Gallo-Roman, Merovingian and medieval eras.
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LOCAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF VISÉ (VISE)Ancient convent of the Sépulcrines, rebuilt after the war of 1914-1918, Meuse Renaissance style.
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LOGNE FORTRESS MUSEUM (VIEUXVILLE)At the foot of the ruins, in a superb 16th century farm, you will discover the Lords of the manors and the mercenaries who witnessed the destruction of the castle in 1521. You will also meet the founders and the first inhabitants of Logne, the Franks, and their treasures dating from the 5th, 6th and 7th century. |
MEDIEVAL RUINS OF POILVACHE (FORMER MERAUDE) (YVOIR)Poilvache (13th-15th c.) is one of the vasted medieval castles of the Middle Meuse (2,5 ha). It was the scene of famous sieges such as the one of 1238 in which Bishop Jean d'Eppes died, or the one of 1430, when the castle was destroyed. The grand and picturesque ruins appealed for a long time the verve and imagination of poets and literary men. Many legends are connected and the spreading of them is favoured by the large pieces of darkness that surround its origins. Bought by the State in 1968 and converted into a Natural Reserve in 1976, Poilvache is again open to the public and forms since 1992 part of the "Patrimoine majeur de la Région Wallonne" (Major Heritage of the Walloon Region). |
MEGALITH MUSEUM AND FIELD AND EXHIBITION CENTRE OF WERIS (WERIS)Considered to be one of the most beautiful villages in Wallonia, Wéris has enjoyed an action-packed history. This charming little village in the Durbuy district boasts a fascinating prehistorical site with a megalithic field more than 8 kilometres long. Here menhirs and dolmens over 5,000 years old form an alignment that is unique to Belgium. Information on the civilisation that built the dolmens are available to walkers at the Museum of the Megaliths. A trail also takes them to places where the legends of the Pas-Bayard (Bayard pass), of the Pierre Haina (Haina stone) and the Lit du Diable (Devil's Bed) originated. From Easter to All Saints' Day, the Exhibition Centre proposes each year a new temporary exhibition. |
MUSEUM OF "MALGRÉ-TOUT" (TREIGNES)Archaeology museum: temporary exhibition (all year), regional archaeology, animations, guided visits to archaeological sites, information space, screening room, library... Park of the Prehistory: reconstruction of the environment of prehistoric men (hunter-gatherer). |
MUSEUM OF THE STAVELOT-MALMEDY PRINCIPALITY (STAVELOT)The Museum of the Stavelot-Malmedy Principality presents an itinerary at the same time modern, intelligent and playful about the surprising history of a state in the Ancien Régime. Images and sounds, object and works of art are well-orchestrated by the most recent multimedia techniques. |
POTTERY MUSEUM OF THE CASTLE OF RAEREN (RAEREN)14th century castle. Listed monument.
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RAMIOUL PREHISTOSITE - RAMIOUL CAVE (FLEMALLE)Awaken your prehistoric self on the prehistosite of Ramioul and go on an extraordinary journey through time at the Interactive Museum of Prehistory in Wallonia. Discover our ancestors' gestures with an archaeologist and learn among others how they made fire. Become a prehistoric hunter and explore the woods of Ramioul with a bow or throwing stick on the look-out for animals that used to live in our regions (3D-targets). This summer, discover the "Proper of Man" with a torch in the cave of Ramioul reopened for the occasion. Also sample our local products and "prehisto-compatibles" in our "prehistoric tavern". |
ROYAL MUSEUM OF MARIEMONT (MORLANWELZ-MARIEMONT)Mariemont is among others: an 45 hectares English style park, the ruins of the palace of Charles de Lorraine; the Bourgeois of Calais, of Rodin; the world's finest Tournai porcelain collection ; hundreds of works from Egypt, Greece and Rome such as the monumental statue of Cleopatra (5 tons), frescos from the villa of Boscoréale (Pompeii) or the Arès Somzée; the most complete collection of Chinese antiquities in Belgium; a tea pavilion, numerous collections from Japan, Korea, Vietnam; archaeological and historical collections on the region of the Centre; rare manuscripts and autographs, thousands of precious books and many other treasures... |
THE FAMENNE MUSEUM (MARCHE-EN-FAMENNE)Located in a superb 18th century house, the Famenne Museum is a place full of memories, emotions and respect. It broaches themes from the prehistory to modern art! The Merovingian and Carolingian periods are illustrated by means of a remarkable collection found during excavations in Wellin and Hamoir. The Museum pays tribute to the Mâitre de Waha, a famous late gothic sculptor. One space is dedicated to the Famenne and March and tells us about the geological and historical characteristics of the region and about the history of the city. One room is dedicated to the Monument, a 17th century sanctuary. The old professions, as well as modern and contemporary art are described as well. |
THE GRAND CURTIUS (LIEGE)The quantity and exceptional quality of the collections at the Grand Curtius show LIège's greatness. These objects are the expression of an artistic and technical knowhow from the most remarkable historical periods from the city, from the principality and the land of Liège. The collections reveal a city that is open to the world. The Grand Curtius celebrates the great unison between object and society. Its collections reveal a memory that helps modern man understand where he comes from and who he is. |
THE REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (ORP-LE-GRAND)Former outbuilding of the farm, converted in 1970 (1st floor).
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TOWN MUSUEM FOR ARCHAEOLOGY, ART AND HISTORY (NIVELLES)Ancient refugee in the priory of the "Prénitaires d'Orival" (18th c.). Listed monument. Prehistoric and Gallo-Roman archaeology of Nivelles and its region (Liberchies = road Bavai/Cologne).
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