Outreach

Guiding principles

Audience development

Enhancing public awareness

We undertake a mix of outreach activities to increase the number of visitors and users, and engage non-traditional museum visitors.

Accessibility

Developing within an inclusive museum

We welcome visitors regardless of their location, education level, age, ethnicity, physical or intellectual ability or language.

Current projects

Art Déco Brussels 2025

The Brussels-Capital Region has declared 2025 the year of Art Deco and counts the House of European History, housed in the former George Eastman Dental Institute, among its ‘must-sees’.

People in Bellum et Artes exhibition using interactive screen

Bellum et Artes – A European Partnership Project

Four hundred years after the beginning of the Thirty Years’ War, twelve museums and research institutions from Germany, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Spain and Belgium have come together to examine the war’s impact on the arts through a transnational lens.

Fake For Real Touring Exhibition

Throughout the centuries – in war, politics, the economy and other spheres of human activity – forgery and deceit were used to advance their creators’ goals. Fake for Real: A History of Forgery and Falsification, is an exhibition that explored these themes for more than a year at the House of European History, its Brussels base. Now, it is about to go on tour...

The Participatory Public History Lab

Public historians from the University of Luxemburg's Centre for Contemporary and Digital History worked with the House of European History to develop transnational participatory practices allowing the co-creation of content with a pool of international participants for an installation in the museum.

Past projects

Creating a multi-voiced history of waste: participation of experts in the field

Museums Explore History of Rubbish in Europe

Covid Makes History

Rail Recollections

The museum, its peers and the media

Academic conferences

The museum has gradually established itself among its peers as a respected partner and interlocutor. It is often invited to participate in academic conferences, lectures or other events. This section contains a sample of the museum’s interventions in such events.

People on talk show in House of European History

Media presence

From time to time, media report about the museum’s activities or present the House of European History in feature stories. This section contains a sample of the museum’s presence in the media.

Network

The House of European History participates in a variety of national and international associations in the museum and cultural heritage field, such as ICOM, NEMO and the Brussels Museum Council. It also undertakes outreach work with diverse groups in the immediate Brussels neighbourhood and region, and cooperates with museums, universities and civil societies across Europe.

This interactive map shows partners, organisations and museums across the Europe and the world, who have contributed to projects or generously agreed to lend objects to the House of European History.