Three tiers at the Brussels Art and History Museum: 10 euro for adults, 8 for over-65s and 4 with a student card

Several museums stand in the Cinquantenaire park in Brussels and their prices are far apart. The permanent collection at the Art and History Museum comes in three tiers on the booking page: 10.00 euro for ages 19 to 64, 8.00 for over-65s and 4.00 with a student card. Putting the three numbers side by side shows one thing clearly, that at this level a fifty-euro city card needs a great many visits to come back. Rated 4.6 from 57 reviews.

• Three tiers for the permanent collection: Permanente collectie - Adult for ages 19 to 64 at 10.00 euro, Senior - Extensive Collections for over-65s at 8.00, and Student - Reduced with a student card at 4.00. (source 1)
• Booking runs in time slots from 10.00, then every half hour, with the remaining tickets and availability shown per slot. (source 1)
• The platform page is rated 4.6 from 57 reviews for the venue named Art & History Museum in Brussels. (source 1)
• The museum presents itself on its own site as the building inside the Cinquantenaire park, with temporary exhibitions alongside the permanent collection. (source 2)

The first sum is the student card: 10.00 minus 4.00 is 6.00 euro, or six tenths off. A student card is worth 6.00 euro every time you walk in here. People studying in the Netherlands who cross to Brussels for the day routinely leave that card at home, and the discount it earns at this museum is deeper than at most Dutch ones.

The second sum sets it against a city card: the card price divided by the fare in your own tier is how many museums it takes to break even. Against a fifty-euro card, an adult needs 50 divided by 10, which is five, while a student needs 50 divided by 4, which is 12.5. The direction runs against intuition: the deeper the single-ticket discount you can claim, the harder a city card is to recover, because the denominator shrinks. So the advice that students should buy the card is wrong here.

The third point is the choice inside one park. The Cinquantenaire holds more than this one museum, their tiers differ widely, and they share the same lawn and the same metro stop. Half a day only stretches to one, so rank them by the fare in your own tier before deciding which door to walk through. No single museum site can do that step for you, because each one publishes only its own price.

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Where

Art & History Museum, inside the Cinquantenaire park in Brussels

When

Slots from 10.00 and every half hour after that

Price

10.00 euro ages 19 to 64, 8.00 over 65, 4.00 on a student tier

Booking

Timed slots with the remaining tickets shown per slot

Note

The 4.00 euro tier requires a student card at the door