Horta Gallery — Attraction in Brussels

Regarding the Van Gogh immersive exhibition: We have visited this exhibition with the hope of being an enhanced experience over a regular visit to a museum, but in my opinion, it wasn't. There were three parts. Backlighted photos of the works of the painter with texts in French and Dutch, which renders it nearly useless for non-speakers of these languages. We were not informed that there was no english translation. Then, the second part was the huge hall with the moving projections over the walls, which was amazing. Very beautiful and well done! Last, there was the Virtual Reality part, in which we all got VR headsets with greased lenses that couldn't get cleaned. There was a narrow point of focus in the view field where you could have a more "clear" view, the animation was not detailed enough and felt like a short walk through that virtual snippet, where the information shared (thankfully in english this time), and the visual/virtual component could not be processed together. There wasn't time to do that. Either you process what you hear or you try to visually grab what happens around you while the virtual tour drags you to its end. Regarding the price, we paid 25 euros for this, plus one advertising poster, which you cannot hang anywhere. We were led to believe that the poster would be a printed copy of some work by the painter, but it was only one available advertising poster (with texts and other images over the work). Instead we could have paid 18 euros for the visit without the VR tour and the poster. The VR tour, when in the exhibition, was 3 euros. So the ad poster costed us 4 euros.... Even if we paid 18 euros just for the photos of the paintings and the hall with the video on the walls, it was too expensive for what it offers. Better visit a Museum to learn something. Museums in Belgium are amazingly well organised and provide you with a ton of...

What a waste of money. Wow. I am actually amazed by how disappointing this exhibition was. Everything is lackluster and poor quality - typos in the cinematic display of artworks and the materials, terrible translation (so bad that at times you can't even understand what's being said without referring to the French), the exhibition itself is small and the space poorly managed (the centerpiece which is the projections of the paintings is shown in a room with multiple huge pillars that block your view). At times they also appear and disappear so fast you have to whip your head around painfully in fear of missing one. I would get a better view and experience of the paintings, in actually decent quality, by looking at them for free on my laptop. The reproductions of Monet's paintings are atrocious, an insult to the artist. They look like they were done by a bored child. The colours as shown in my photos are accurate, believe it or not! They were hung in a very poorlu lit gallery. In fact the whole space was extremely dim, probably to hide how shamefully poor everything was. The VR looks like it was made in 2002 by a bored Tomb Raider II 3D artist - it's cheap and superficial. The information provided on posters is just surface level facts with no insight, facts copy-pasted from Google. I could learn more by searching online for ten minutes! What a waste. There is so much knowledge and expertise on Monet, but they chose to cobble together a fake exhibition with a few special effects. This whole set up is an ode to...

The Claude Monet Immersive Experience is a ridiculously expensive joke. We paid over 10 Euros per person to enter and it is hardly anything at all. It mainly is a big room with projectors pointing in every direction that animate some of Monet's paintings. Most of it is obstructed by pillars. There is hardly anywhere to sit but on the bare floor, or one must stand. There are two additional rooms with some "information" on Monet's paintings that is not even as high quality as Wikipedia, much less an art history degree. There are no real paintings, only some reproductions. Even the projections are poorly aligned and blurry. There is NOTHING immersive about the experience. If you wish to be further ripped off and robbed you can also PAY EXTRA for the VR experience (after waiting in line) for 2 Euros more per person, and 50 cents extra for the toilet should you, like us, feel sick to your stomach to be robbed of not only your money, but your time. Avoid this at all costs, it is a scam!!! It is an insult to the name Horta and to...