Guided tours for visually impaired persons

Arkadia is actively seeking to make its tours accessible to as many people as possible.
We propose a series of original, multi-sensory tours for groups of blind and visually impaired visitors.
Tours are adapted to include tactile aids, such as relief drawings, musical extracts, and sometimes tastings...

To ensure a pleasant and enriching experience, we limit group size to a maximum of 16 people (including accompanying persons).

Our guides are trained by our partner Eqla Asbl.

The tours have been developed with the support of visit.brussels and Bruxelles Environnement.

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Hôtel Van Eetvelde +

The Van Eetvelde Hotel was built in 1895 by Victor Horta for Edmond Van Eetvelde, Secretary General for the Congo, who wanted to show his social success with a house that could accommodate receptions. Showcasing the distinctive features of the Horta style, the house has a superb rotunda glass roof...

Art nouveau Interiors Heritage
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INR : House of radio – « The Flagey Liner » +

The INR or « the sound factory » is a marvellous example of aesthetics espousing technical achievements to meet the requirements of radio work. Between Art Deco and modernism, the shape of the building reminds us of the fascination that the 1930s had for the architecture of machines and particularly...

Art Deco Art nouveau Interiors
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La Maison des Arts - Schaerbeek +

In 1825, the Eenens family, wealthy cloth-makers, acquired market garden land on the Chaussée de Haecht. At the time, Schaerbeek was still very rural. In the centre of the park, they had the central building of a bourgeois house built in the neoclassical style, as well as the outbuildings: to the...

Eclectic architecture Neo-classical architecture Brussels, city of art Exhibitions Interiors Heritage
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Maison Autrique / PDV +

Construite par Victor Horta en 1893, la Maison Autrique annonce l'Art nouveau par ses innovations structurelles et décoratives. Elle a fait l'objet d'une restauration exemplaire et permet de bien saisir l'intérêt historique et esthétique des vieilles demeures bruxelloises. Lors de la visite adaptée...

Art nouveau Brussels, city of art Interiors Heritage
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Solvay Library +

The Solvay Library, the magnificent setting of the former Institute of Sociology, was created under the impulse of Ernest Solvay and built by the architects Constant Bosmans and Henri Vandeveld. Inaugurated in 1902, the Solvay Institute of Sociology is one of the most prestigious remains of the...

Art nouveau Interiors Heritage