Art Deco Brussels 2025 draws more than 775,000 visitors

Art Deco Brussels 2025 attracted more than 775,000 visitors last year. State secretary for Urban Development and Heritage Ans Persoons.described the figure as "a great success" for the region.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Art Deco movement, the city of Brussels-Capital Region organised events all throughout 2025. In total, more than 755,000 people took part in the programme, spread across 24 exhibitions in 17 institutions and more than 1,050 guided tours in 19 municipalities.

With these figures, the Year of Art Deco "exceeded expectations", according to Persoons. "Brussels was already the capital of Art Nouveau, but it is now also one of the leading cities for Art Deco. By bringing together a wide range of partners around this joint project, we have strengthened the cultural, tourist and economic appeal of the region."

"Brussels was already the capital of Art Nouveau, but it is now also one of the leading cities for Art Deco"

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Rudi Vervoort, minister-president of the Brussels-Capital Region, said the success illustrates "the hunger for culture and beauty among the citizens of Brussels". Led by urban.brussels and visit.brussels, and developed in close cooperation with a broad network of cultural and municipal partners, the Year of Art Deco offered a renewed look at the post-war art movement.

Visitors were able to take part in guided tours of numerous iconic Art Deco buildings, including the Villa Empain, the Buuren Museum and Gardens, the Basilica of Koekelberg, the BELvue Museum, the Saint-Gery Halls and Train World. The Art Nouveau Art Deco Pass, which provides access to three museums, sold 6,949 passes, which were scanned 12,840 times.

Persoons says Art Deco Brussels also had a domino effect, with rising visitor numbers at several cultural institutions across Brussels that are not necessarily related to the art movement.

^{Queen Mathilde of Belgium visits the "Museum & Gardens van Buuren" Art Deco museum in Uccle, Brussels, during the Year of Art Deco. © BELGA PHOTO ERIC LALMAND}

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