Once again this year, the Institute of Natural Sciences opens its doors for the  Brussels Museums' Nocturnes. We are expecting you on Thursday 24 April from 6pm onwards!  Visit our wondrous exhibits and discover an array of exciting activities curated exclusively for this evening.

Programme :

• EXPO Permanent halls
• EXPO 'Wild?'
• BEHIND THE SCENES Behind the museum’s closed doors (also in LSFB; French-Belgian sign language)
• GUIDED TOUR The museum's must-sees (also in LSFB; French-Belgian sign language)
• WORKSHOP Board games about natural sciences
• CONCERT Sing for The Moment 
• FILM The Great Auk 

EXPO Step inside this museum: thousands of specimens, interactive displays with modern scenography will take you to the heart of nature. Learn about the history of life on our planet and its incredible diversity, and of course, visit the largest dinosaur gallery in Europe with spectacular skeletons, including unique and authentic specimens! 

EXPO All Wild? Who is “wild”? Confront different perceptions of the wild: exotic? distant? dangerous? untouched? Explore the boundary that separates wild animals from humans. 

BEHIND THE SCENES Discover the world of nature and science with a guide, behind the museum walls. Walk along several unique repositories with hundreds of specimens and discover how the scientists study them. During your tour, you will also get to know the beautiful architecture of the Institute’s buildings. 

NL: 18h10, 19h20, 20h30

FR: 18h20, 19h30, 20h40

Duration: 1 hour

BEHIND THE SCENES In collaboration with Arts&Culture and Open Museum, you can follow the Behind The Scenes accompanied by a sign language guide in French-Belgian Sign Language (LSFB).

GUIDED TOUR The museum has a lot to offer. To not to miss anything important, discover the highlights of the collections with this guided tour. You will not only come across well-known masterpieces such as the Iguanodons of Bernissart or the Mammoth of Lier, but also gems such as the fossils from the Messel quarry, or the Tasmanian tiger. 

FR : 18h, 19h10, 20h30

NL: 18h, 19h10, 20h30

EN: 18h, 19h10, 20h30

Duration: 1 hour

GUIDED TOUR In collaboration with Arts&Culture and Open Museum, you can take the Guided Tour accompanied by a sign language guide in French-Belgian Sign Language (LSFB).

WORKSHOP During this nocturne, before or after your visit to the museum, you can play board games on the theme of natural sciences! Dinosaurs, prehistory, biodiversity, and so on, make you discover the living world through fun and educational games. Observation, strategy, or cooperation will be your best allies to win the game. A convivial evening to learn while having fun, with friends or family! 

Languages: FR

Hours: continuously between 18h and 22h

CONCERT The choir Sing for The Moment presents an evening with various itinerant choir performances. Their performances are therefore all unique experiences that will touch you and move you. 

Hours: 18h, 19h, 20h, 21h

Duration: 20 min.
 

FILM The great auk was the original penguin, but disappeared from the Earth in the mid-1800s. Norwegian filmmaker Irene Kaltenborn travels around to meet various people and places with a connection to the extinct bird, from the home of the author of The Great Auk in England to the museum here in Brussels, which holds – in all likelihood – the world’s very last specimen of the iconic bird. Through stories and observations this poetic film looks back on the life of a species that will never return.     

Languages: EN

Hours: continuously between 18h and 22h

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