The House of European History team offers an engaging and thought-provoking journey through European history. Dive into it over lunchtime and discover our new permanent and temporary exhibitions.
In a festive pre-Christmas atmosphere enriched by local songs performed in ancient costumes and Saint Lucia candles, the fifth leg of the touring exhibition “Fake for Real” was inaugurated at the Regional Museum Skåne in Kristianstad, southern Sweden.
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The fourth opening of the touring exhibition Fake for Real: A History of Forgery and Falsification, took place in Gdańsk on July 30th, 2025.
This smaller temporary exhibition is the first in the House of European History that is entirely co-created through participatory project “Echoes” with a diverse group of young adults from across Brussels.
The House of European History has lent from its collection a painting of François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture — a prominent leader of the Haitian revolution — to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, United States.
The House of European History’s first ever photo exhibition ‘Presence of the Past - a European Album’ opened with two events on 27 and 28 March.
Approximately 80 people braved the cold weather in Parc Leopold on Thursday 13 February to see the “Resonantia Lux” projections illuminate the museum building.