The Micro Fries Museum Brussels invites you to its free and exciting open house every first weekend of the month. Craving a real Easter and fries, in a cone, please? Join us this Saturday, May 3rd and Sunday, May 4th! The Belgian fries that nourish the soul await you, as does the exhibition "Fritüure" by painter Eric Legrain.

912+ objects, documents, and creations related to Belgian Fries! A micro cinema showing only clips and short films immersed in the fragrant vapors of fries. Here's your joyful program, with free admission, for this first weekend of May 2025: Saturday, May 3rd (1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.) and Sunday, May 4th (1:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.), rue des Alliés/Bondgenotenstraat 242, 1190 Brussels-Forest!

Fries are a celebration!

Fries, this Belgian specialty, are, above all, a great deal of conviviality and the pleasure of eating them at an affordable price. Where to eat the best fries? In the «fritkots», of course! Where you'll find authentic fries artisans. It's in their wake that the Fritkot Culture has crystallized in Belgium since the end of the 19th century. This encompasses the customs and traditions of fry-makers and fry-eaters, as well as the way they express themselves through popular songs, literature, comics, art, and more. At the end of July 2017, Fritkot Culture was recognized by all parts of Belgium as intangible, cultural, and oral heritage. The tradition of fritkots/frituur/fritures/baraques à frites in Belgium is truly a living heritage!

Micro Fries Museum Brussels: a quarter of a century with Eric Legrain and "Fritüure"!

To celebrate the quarter-century of the Micro Fries Museum Brussels, we have the thrilling pleasure of welcoming Éric Legrain, "painter of fritüures"! Living and working in Beho, in the easternmost part of the province of Luxembourg, Éric Legrain is renowned for his highly personal painting. The artist reveals an uncompromising, lively character, fueled by contrasting colors, lines, lights... and fritkots/fritures... fritüures! His new retrospective exhibition, "Fritüure," at Home Frit' Home, is a graphic novel.

Fries are everywhere: tits in the fritkot nest box

History, recipes, gadgets, painting, photography, literature, music... Fries are everywhere at Home Frit' Home's Micro Fries Museum in Brussels, and double-cooked, of course! Nearly 1,000 objects, documents, and creations await you, as well as a "télé-frites," a micro-cinema (clips, short films, etc.), and a frituresque garden, complete with titmice in their fritkot nest box! Your on-call Belgian Fries expert, or fritologist, Hugues Henry, author of the book "Carrément frites" (Renaissance du Livre, 2012), Silver Cross of the National Order of the Golden Cornet (2014), and Honorary Citizen of the Free Commune of the Îlot Sacré Brussels as President of the Brussels Fries Museum (2023), will be at your side to guide you and collect your favorite «frites» memories.

Free open house at the Micro Fries Museum Home Frit' Home

• Saturday, May 3 (1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.)
• Sunday, May 4 (1:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.). Micro Belgo Boutique + Micro Cinema and Frites Garden open. Rue des Alliés 242, 1190 Brussels-Forest. Trams: 82, 97. Buses: 52, 50, 49.

How to get to the Micro Fries Museum Brussels?

• Car: Parking is limited. Rather than driving around, head to Boulevard de la Deuxième Armée Britannique or the lower end of Duden Park. Parking is easier there. Walk 5 minutes and enter Home Frit' Home.
• Buses: 52 (get off at the Decoster or Union stops), 49, 50 (get off at the Wiels stops).
• Trams: 82, 97 (get off at the Union stops).
• Villo: Union station.
• Bicycle: Trees and bike racks available.
• Motorcycle, Solex: They should work too!