MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND FOLKLORE

The Museum for History and Folklore is located in a mansion which dates from the end of the 18th century. You can admire its collections, presented in various sections:

- Prehistory section.
- Medieval section: sculptures, paintings, embroidery, plate.
- Renaissance Section: furniture and printing equipment.
- French furniture equipment: 17th and 18th century.
- Town planning section: scale models and development of the town from the 12th tot 17th century.
- Folklore section: professions and popular traditions in the region. The Ducasse of Ath.

Library accessible on request.
Guided tours on request. Duration: 2h.
Open the year round, on request.

Possibility to combine with the brand new audiovisual show of the Tour Burbant or other sites in Ath.

Location

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• Nature and Acrobatic Forest Park
• Grand-Hornu Industrial Mining Complex
• The Eau d'heure lakes - La Plate Taille Welcome Centre
• "Le Crocodile Rouge" - The Red Crocodile Amphibious Bus
• The Eau d'Heures Lakes, the Largest Lakes in Belgium