Horta Museum tickets: €14, booked online, open from 14:00 on weekdays and free on the first Sunday

💡 The Short Version: The Horta Museum is €14, and only an online booking guarantees entry to Victor Horta’s house and workshop. It is closed on Mondays and opens at 14:00 from Tuesday to Friday, and at 11:00 at weekends, closing at 17:30. It is free on the first Sunday of the month, with an online booking and a limited number of places. The Brussels Card does not cover it, and the Art Nouveau Pass and the Museum Pass Musées do. The Maison Hannon, another Art Nouveau house, is a 10-minute walk away. Prices are in euros. Or book a tour: a private Art Nouveau walk with the Horta Museumad is from €128 and a three-hour private tourad from €120 (GetYourGuide).

Tickets and prices

Prices are from the Horta Museum’s own site, in French, which lists a 2026 and a 2027 ticket. The reduced rates need a valid proof, or the adult price applies. Book on the museum’s ticket page.

• Booking. The museum says “only the online booking guarantees access” to the house and workshop, with a limited waiting time. It strongly recommends booking for the individual ticket, the combined ticket and the free Sunday.
• The first Sunday. The visit is free, and places are limited. The first Sunday of November 2026 is 1 November, which is one of the museum’s closing days.
• Passes. The Art Nouveau Pass, the Museum Pass Musées and the Friends of the Horta Museum enter free. The Brussels Card is not on the museum’s list of passes. Brussels Art Nouveau explains the Art Nouveau Pass, and Brussels Card: is it worth it? has the sums.
• Combined ticket. A combined ticket with the Maison Hannon is sold online: €22 for adults, €8 for ages 18 to 26 and €5 for under-18s. The two passes above are not valid for it.
• Groups. A group ticket needs a booking, with your own guide or the museum’s.

Where to buy

Tours worth paying for

The museum’s ticket is a self-guided visit with a booklet. GetYourGuide has no museum ticket, and its two listings are private walks for a group of your own choosing. Prices are the lowest “from” prices, per person.

Art Nouveau private walking tour with the Horta Museum

From €128 · 3 hours · 4.6 stars from 15 reviews

Brussels: Art Nouveau Private Walking Tour with Horta Museumad is a private walk with the Horta Museum in its title. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Art Nouveau private tour with a local guide

From €120 · 3 hours · 5 stars from 29 reviews

Brussels Art Nouveau 3h Private Tour with a Local Guidead is a private three-hour tour of the Art Nouveau streets. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

What to see

Horta built the house and the workshop between 1898 and 1901 as two connected buildings in Saint-Gilles, and the commune bought them in the 1960s and opened the museum in 1969. The interior has largely survived: mosaics, stained glass and wall decoration with plant curves, arranged round light. The museum also holds Horta’s archives and a library on Art Nouveau, and stages temporary exhibitions.

The Horta Museum, Rue Américaine, Saint-Gilles. Photo: FrDr, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. The house. A booklet handed out at the start leads you from room to room, so there is no guided tour to catch. The Maison Hannon’s site puts the visit at about one hour.
2. The workshop. It closes to visitors 30 minutes before the museum does, so see it before the last half hour.
3. The Maison Hannon. Jules Brunfaut built it for the collector Édouard Hannon, at Avenue de la Jonction 1, about 10 minutes’ walk away. The ticket is €14, and it is valid all day without a slot. It is open Thursday 13:00 to 18:00, Friday 11:00 to 18:00 and at weekends 10:00 to 18:00, takes about 45 minutes and has stairs inside. The Brussels Card and the Art Nouveau Pass enter free.
4. The Comic Art Museum. It sits in a Horta building, a former warehouse, and the comic strip route ends there.

The staircase skylight in the Horta Museum. Photo: Oxyman, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.

The order that works: on a weekday go to the Horta Museum from 14:00 and finish at 17:30, since there is no morning opening. At the weekend go at 11:00, then walk to the Maison Hannon. What to skip: the Maison Hannon on a Tuesday or Wednesday, because it is shut then.

The Maison Hannon, Avenue de la Jonction, Saint-Gilles. Photo: M0tty, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Last admission: 45 minutes before closing, and the workshop closes to visitors 30 minutes before.
• Address: Rue Américaine, Saint-Gilles. Brussels Museums lists trams 4, 10, 51, 81, 92 and 97 and buses 54, 60 and 136. Brussels public transport has the fares.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: turning up without a booking, or before 14:00 on a weekday. What to book in Brussels puts the museum among the sights that need a slot.

Brussels Art Nouveau lists the other houses that open and what the pass covers. The Magritte Museum and best museums in Brussels share the Monday closure. Free things to do in Brussels lists the first-Sunday free days. 3 days in Brussels puts the Horta Museum on an afternoon. For a bed, see where to stay in Brussels.