Museums
Museums
Aquarium
 | Approximately 2,500 creatures representing 250 species of ocean, sea, lake and river fish from around the world live in the 46 pools of the Aquarium and nearly 20,000 stuffed animals from every continent are exhibited in the museum. |
Archeoforum
Artefacts from over 9,000 years of history take the visitor right back to the origins of the city, through an underground route. At the Archeoforum prehistoric remains, walls of a Gallo-Roman villa, remains of medieval religious buildings, etc. can be discovered. It is a place treasuring the memory of the past and of Liège’s roots. |
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The Grand Curtius
 | This new museum complex of art and history of the Liège region combines five departments: Arms, Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Glass, Religious Art and Mosan Art. |
House of Metallurgy and Industry
This museum is dedicated to the history of metallurgy, energy and computing. A charcoal blast furnace from the 17th century, the oldest in the country, a spectacular steam engine, Napoléon’s zinc bath, the prototype dynamo of Zénobe Gramme, an extremely rare precursor of the computer age are amongst the very many landmarks of this fascinating adventure. |
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House of Science
 | Permanent exhibitions: entertaining experiments in biology, chemistry and physics, holograms and optical illusions. |
Ansembourg Museum
This private townhouse from the 18th century demonstrates the refined art de vivre of the period in a structured collection of architecture and decorative arts with a specifically Liège character. The Ansembourg museum boasts of a magnificent collection of sculpted and marquetry furniture of the 18th century, tapestries, leather wallcoverings in the manner of Cordoba, Venetian style glass chandeliers, clocks, ceramics, etc. |
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Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
 | In this former palace of the Universal Exhibition of 1905, one can follow the evolution of modern and contemporary art through the finest works from the Liège collections: including works by Picasso, Gauguin, Monet, Chagall, and Kokoschka. |
MADMUSEE - Museum of Diverse Art
Its permanent collection is unique in Europe. The Madmusée gathers works by artists with a mental handicap, from the five continents. |  |
Walloon Art Museum
An overview of Belgian artistic creativity (sculpture and painting) from the Renaissance. |
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Museum of Walloon Life
 | Located in the former convent of the friars minor, this recently restored museum of ethnology portrays rural and forestry work, the old industries and crafts as well as regional traditions and arts. |
Museum of Public Transport in the Liège Region
Vehicles, network equipment, documents relating to transport companies and scale models of trams tell the story of public transport in the Liège region. |
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Sart Tilman Open-Air Museum
 | Sculptures and mural paintings are integrated into this natural site and in the remarkable contemporary architecture of the university campus. |
Grétry Museum
| The house in which the musician was born. This museum presents paintings, sculptures, engravings, scores, instruments and documents relating to the artist. |
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Tchantchès Museum
 | Museum of the Free Republic of Outremeuse. It contains the various costumes provided for the oldest citizen of Liège, Tchantchès, and the remarkable collection of marionettes by Denis Bisscheroux (sculptor and puppet-maker). This museum is also known as the Royal Theatre (Old Imperial Theatre Royal). |
Cathedral Treasure-House
As part of the outbuildings of the monastry, this museum presents a journey through the art and history of the former principality of Liège. The greater part of the Treasure-house comes from the now-disappeared cathedral of St. Lambert, including two sculpted 11th century ivory pieces, and two masterpieces of gold- and silversmith work: the reliquary bust of saint Lambert (early 16th century), and the reliquary given by Charles The Bold (15th century). |
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Baptismal Font of the Collegiate Church of St Bartholomew
 | The church houses one of the universal masterpieces of Romanesque sculpture, considered to be one of the seven marvels of Belgium: a baptismal font in brass (1107-1118) originating from Notre-Dame-aux-Fonts, the former baptistery of the city. This church, formerly abutting the cathedral of Saint-Lambert, was destroyed with it at the end of the 18th century. |
