M Leuven — Attraction in Leuven

The M-Museum is a place to be in Leuven! The modern architecture of the museum is brillant integrated into the shape of the living medieval city center of Leuven. In May 2024 the museum’s presented contemporary artist installation, so take your time and enjoy. (One floor was completely closed, the exhibitions about the famous flamish medivial artist Dierick Bouts from the 15th century finished just a month ago. You will find his most important paintings in the St. Peters Church just around the corner.). The service at the entrance gives your good overview about the different exhibitions in the museum. The museum is definitely a place to be in Leuven. Its hard for me to end up with 3 stars only. The reason is first the poor rooting in the gallery, for elderly and handicapped people partially a big challenge. And secondly the missing guided tours in the museum itself, the audio guide is an option to gain an overview of the art installation, but will not answer your questions.

I do strongly recommend the guided tours offered by the tourism office. The guides are well educated, with a lot of historical knowledge and the educational...

As museum, I don't find this special at all. And they have missed the opportunity to present the history of Leuven. However I give one star for another reason. They offer guided birthday party visits for kids. This sounded great and we have made the booking about a month in advance. We notified all the kids and made sure all can have time to attend. Then one day before the due date my wife gets a phone call that the guide for the tour is going to be sick, so the whole event went down. I can't believe that the museum is offering such events and has no plans for such cases. It looks like they just don't care and/or are too lazy to go out and cover for their sick colleague on Saturday. So my recommendation is - don't rely on them for anything important. We are really lucky that our son took this well,.other kid may experience some of the greatest stress and disapointement and remember this failure...

For such a small country, Belgium has a decent amount of class museums. Leuven thought it shouldn't leg behind and opened Museum M (just called M here) in 2009. I'm a keen museum visitor, but never have come to grips with the place. In the first place, its (not too large) collection (but of great historic value) mainly consists of medieval religious art, not always my cuppa (half of the church at the grand market is now part of M too, so your ticket will let you visit half a church with religious art as well. A handful of top works). Lots of temporary exhibitions have been rehashing the art from different thematic perspectives, so I've kind of seen it by now. The museum combines that scope with an interest in contemporary art. However, the temp exhibitions with modern art are usually quite small, making revisiting too expensive. Ah well, find out for...