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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Tervuren

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Tervuren, Belgium

Updated December 2, 2020

Unusual Attractions in Tervuren

Tervuren, Belgium

Royal Museum for Central Africa Natural History Collections

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

Tervuren, Belgium

Bandundu Water Jazz Band

A jazz band formed by African water animals in the heart of Flemish Brabant.

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Brussels, Belgium

Cook & Book

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

3 miles from Tervuren

Brussels, Belgium

Bibliotheca Wittockiana

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

3 miles from Tervuren

Brussels, Belgium

Temple of Human Passions

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

5 miles from Tervuren

Brussels, Belgium

Commemoration of Peter the Great's Vomit

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

6 miles from Tervuren

Brussels, Belgium

Le Museé du Jouet (Toy Museum)

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

6 miles from Tervuren

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