Established in one of the two former city toll offices, built in neo-classical style in 1835 and 1836 and designed by A. Payen, the Sewers Museum of Brussels gives an overview of the city’s evolution in terms of public sanitation. These rather small buildings, formerly used to collect a toll on goods entering the city and to check people’s papers, were closed down after the toll was abolished in 1860. They now provide access to the main sewer and the one on the eastern side became the sewer museum in 1988, while the other building is used by the sewer workers.
Location of Sewers Museum of Brussels:
Photos of Musée des Égouts de Bruxelles:
The entrance building to the Sewers Museum of Brussels
The city of Brussels has a gigantic subterranean sewers network of 320 km
Roaming around the underworld
Collecting sewage from the Chaussée de Mons
The sewage stream
.jpg)
Back into the underground maze
.jpg)
The neon lights gives an idea of the intense mosquito activity
Vintage hydraulic wagon
.jpg "inside-sewers-brussels (2)")
Exiting from another former city toll offices
