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Christmas market at the Tram Museum

On Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 December the Tram Museum opens its doors for its fourth Christmas market. Many local (non-professional) artisans will be offering their quality products (decorations and delicacies) in a unique atmosphere that will delight young and old alike, surrounded by the trams and buses that traveled through Brussels in the 20th […]

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2025-2026 Winter season: “Journey to the past”

Between October 2025 and March 2026 the Museum is open one weekend every month, with an additional opening weekend for our annual Christmas market. On these opening days our heritage trams will run between the Museum and Tervuren Station. Additionally, on Sundays our oldtimer buses will shuttle between the Museum and the European quarter (Maelbeek […]

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14 and 15 June 2025: 100th anniversary of public transit by bus & tram line 39

🚍🚋 100th anniversary of regular public transit by bus & tram 39 – Come celebrate with us! 🎉 On 14 and 15 June we will celebrate not one but two public transport milestones! 🚍 Saturday 14 June | 12 noon-5 p.m. | 100 years of public transit by bus in Belgium Come see more than […]

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Sunday 22 May 2022: 40th anniversary of the Tram Museum!

    In 1982 STIB founded the nonprofit organization “Musée du Transport Urbain Bruxellois” to develop the activities of what is now known as the Tram Museum. It was a brilliant idea: enthusiastic amateurs would be laying the groundwork for a collection of vehicles, objects and archives telling the story of public transit in our […]

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An 1890 steam tram locomotive visiting Brussels!

We are finalizing the preparations for the 40th anniversary of the Museum on the 22nd of May. One of the stars of the day will be a steam tram locomotive of the “Tramways de l’Est de Bruxelles”, built by Cockerill in 1890. The Tramways de l’Est de Bruxelles ran a steam tram line between place […]

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150th anniversary: behind the scenes (video)

During these difficult times of compulsory confinement, we offer you a way to escape, with this nostalgic footage of an unforgettable 1st of May 2019!

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150th anniversary: behind the scenes

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the tram in Brussels (and Belgium)? We’re on it! 2 February 2019: departure of horse-drawn car 509 from the Museum. Not as easy as it looks! 16 February 2019: removal of the wheels of Omnibuses 2 and 6 for a revision. 24 March 2019: “field tests” of horse-drawn car 509. […]

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Join us for the 150th anniversary of the Brussels tram network!   The 1st of May, 1869 was a historic date for Brussels. On that day, the very first tram line was put into operation. This horse tram line ran from the Bois de la Cambre to Porte de Namur through avenue Louise. Later on, it […]

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“Bicorn hats” at the Museum!

A few weeks ago our collection of destination signs and blinds expanded with the arrival of a number of special “bicornes”, named after the bicorn hats famously worn by Napoleon in the late 1700s and early 1800s. These “bicornes” were mostly used on the horse drawn trams of the “Tramways Bruxellois” starting in 1875. Logically […]

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The first steps in the renovation of tram 984

Tram 1348 (from 1914) has only barely returned to Woluwe after a successful renovation at the ARTERAIL workshops in Nancy, France… and now it’s motor car 984’s turn! This tram from 1906 will get a complete overhaul at the same company in France. As you can see below, the work has already started on the undercarriage […]

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Tram 1348 is back, in all its splendour!

This unique vehicle left Brussels on 8 April 2017, still with its old number 1428. Its destination: the workshops of ARTERAIL in Nancy, France. It is there that it was going to be restored to its former splendor. Just over a year later it is back in Woluwe, now numbered 1348. This “renumbering” deserves an explanation. […]

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The Museum comes to life!

The 2017 season does not only see our historical trams return at Parc Cinquantenaire: inside the Museum there are loads of improvements and new attractions that make a visit even more worthwhile. A number of signs and signposts from the 1950s and 1960s have gotten a spot in the “lower hall”. Additionally, the inside lighting […]

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