Brussels with kids: Mini-Europe, Train World, Autoworld, the Natural Sciences museum and the sights children enter free

💡 The Short Version: Mini-Europe is free below 115 cm and €15.30 online for under-12s, the Atomium is €9 for ages up to 17 above 115 cm, and Train World is €11 for ages 6 to 17, €5 for ages 4 to 5 and free for 0 to 3. The Magritte, Old Masters, Musical Instruments and Art & History museums are free to under-18s. Autoworld is open on Mondays; Train World, the Natural Sciences museum and the Comic Art Museum are not. Mini-Europe closes from 4 January to 12 March 2027 and the Atomium from 18 January to 5 February. The Magritte Museum allows no strollers. Prices are in euros. Or book a tour: the Autoworld ticketad is €18 and the chocolate museum visit with a workshopad is from €45 (GetYourGuide).

Prices by age

Prices are from each operator.

Mini-Europe

Under 12 €15.30 online · under 115 cm free · closed 4 January to 12 March 2027 · Bruparck, Laeken

Mini-Europe is open daily 10:00 to 18:00 until 3 January 2027, with the last entry one hour before closing, and 10:00 to 17:00 on 24 and 31 December. The online price needs a dated ticket bought at least 48 hours ahead; at the door a child under 12 pays €17.90. Lockers are next to the restaurant, dogs are not allowed in Mini-Europe or Bruparck, and the park is fully accessible for wheelchairs. Halloween@Mini-Europe runs from 17 October to 8 November 2026. The Atomium is 150 metres away and the two share a €35 adult combination ticket sold on the spot.

The Atomium

€9 over 115 cm to 17 · free at 115 cm or under · daily 10:00 to 18:00 · closed 18 January to 5 February 2027

The ticket covers the five open spheres and the Design Museum Brussels, 150 metres away. The Atomium puts its peak at 11:00 to 15:00, and a ticket bought online skips only the ticket desk, so go before 11:00 or after 15:00 with children. The Atomium warns that the light-and-sound installations can disorient visitors prone to vertigo or epilepsy. Atomium tickets has the rest.

Train World

€11 ages 6 to 17 · €5 ages 4 to 5 · free ages 0 to 3 · Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 17:00 · Schaerbeek station

Train World, the museum of the Belgian railways, says you may touch almost everything. Last admission is 15:30, and it is closed on Mondays and on 5 December 2026. The museum is fully accessible for people with limited mobility, and its station café, La Station des Rêveurs, runs youth activities and games. A Train World ticket bought online comes with a code for a Discovery Ticket, 40% off the return train fare to Schaerbeek, and Train World says children under 12 travel free on the train. Best museums in Brussels has the full entry.

A preserved steam locomotive of the Antwerp to Ghent railway at Train World, Schaerbeek. Photo: Tom Page, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Autoworld

€11 ages 6 to 12 · free under 6 · open Mondays · Parc du Cinquantenaire 11

Autoworld shows more than 250 vehicles in about 1 hour 30 minutes, and is open seven days: Monday to Friday 10:00 to 17:00 and at weekends 10:00 to 18:00. The online ticket is €1 cheaper if booked a day ahead. Lockers are on site, and the brasserie and shop have their own entrance. 75 Years of Ferrari in Belgium runs from 19 December 2026 to 28 February 2027.

The Museum of Natural Sciences

€6 ages 3 to 25 · free ages 0 to 2 · closed Mondays · Rue Vautier 29

The Museum of Natural Sciences shows the Bernissart Iguanodons and has a Gallery of Humankind on evolution. It is open Tuesday to Friday 09:30 to 17:00 and at weekends 10:00 to 18:00. The PaleoLAB workshop adds €4 to the ticket. Adults pay €15.

The Bernissart Iguanodons mounted in the Museum of Natural Sciences, in a photograph from the museum’s archive. Photo: RBINS, Wikimedia Commons.

The chocolate museum

Open daily 10:00 to 18:00, last entry 17:00 · Brussels Museums lists it closed 4 to 15 January · Rue de l’Étuve 41

Choco-Story walks through the history of chocolate, from a Mayan temple to the Belgian praline, with a demonstration, a tasting and an audio guide in the visit. Its one-hour workshop lets you make your own bars, lollipops and mendiants, from age 7 and with a paying adult. The Brussels Card gets you in free. The GetYourGuide listing of the museum entry with a tastingad is from €16.

The Comic Art Museum and the Magritte Museum

Comic Art Museum €6 ages 6 to 11 · Magritte Museum free under 18 · both closed Mondays

The Comic Art Museum runs courses for children and, twice a month on Sunday afternoons from 14:00 to 15:30, a drawing session led by a cartoonist; it puts a visit at about 1 hour 30 minutes. The Magritte Museum sells children’s and teenagers’ audio guides for €5 and holds a bilingual “Happy Sunday! Kids & Family” activity from age 6, in French and English or Dutch and English, on 15 November and 27 December 2026 and 17 January, 14 March, 23 May and 13 June 2027. Strollers are not allowed there, but front baby carriers are.

Other sights with a child rule

• The Musical Instruments Museum: under-18s are free, and a multimedia guide is in the ticket. The museum says you can listen to the sounds the instruments once produced.
• The Cathedral: the shop gives children aged 6 to 12 a free booklet, The Lantern of Saint Gudula, with themed games. See free things to do in Brussels.
• The GardeRobe MannekenPis: free for under-18s, with about 150 of the Manneken Pis’s costumes on show. See Manneken Pis.
• The Autrique House: €3 for ages 6 to 18, with strollers left in the vestibule.
• The Art & History Museum: under-18s are free, and some rooms are not accessible to pushchairs.
• The René Magritte Museum in Jette: free for children under 9, not for pushchairs.

Mondays with children

Monday is the hard day. The Magritte, Old Masters, Musical Instruments, Art & History, Comic Art, Horta and City museums, Train World and the Museum of Natural Sciences are all closed. Open are Autoworld, Mini-Europe until 3 January 2027, the Atomium outside its closure, the chocolate museum, the Marolles flea market, and the Parlamentarium and House of European History from 13:00. The Parlamentarium needs a physical passport or national ID card.

Getting around with children

STIB lets children under 6 travel free. Brussels public transport has the rules for older children and the day fares.

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