Events

Our new temporary exhibition Presence of the Past has opened! It is a documentary photo exhibition that looks at how Europeans deal with the past. Come and meet the curators and educators that shaped this exhibition.

Slow Looking Saturday is a museum series taking place during the temporary exhibition ‘Presence of the Past – a Photo Album’.

On Friday evening 28 March, come celebrate the opening of the first photography exhibition at the House of European History ‘Presence of the Past – a European Album’.

In March we celebrate International Women’s Day, so it’s the perfect month to discover the stories of the extraordinary women in our permanent collection. Explore a new floor each week and encounter the objects related to these women. and learn more about their lives and impact on European history.

Become a European History Spy and create fun family memories with our free museum activity!

After a successful pilot edition, the Big European Pub Quiz is back at the House of European History!

An audiovisual projection entitled "Resonantia Lux" by Elektro Moon Vision highlights the vibrancy and resonance of European visual art heritage.

Eighty-five year old Regina Sluszny is a Holocaust survivor. On Saturday 25 January, two days before the date that marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, she will be at the House of European History in Brussels to share her story.

War is terrible. It leads to loss of life and property and, often, to the destruction of culture and to the looting of art. The issue of looted art in history is the subject of a panel discussion at the museum.

As part of the temporary exhibition, “Bellum et Artes – Europe and the Thirty Years’ War”, the House of European History proudly presents three extraordinary and very different European films that represent and (re)imagine the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648).