Musée du Transport Urbain Bruxellois 24.09.2023
Musée du Transport Urbain Bruxellois (MTUB asbl): this non-profit association has managed the Brussels Transport Museum since 1982. It is located in the Woluwe tram depot, and occupies four of the six warehouses. The other two are still used by around thirty STIB/MIVB trams, which provide service on lines 18, 38 and 44.
The Woluwe depot was inaugurated in 1897, together with the Tervueren Avenue tram line, put into service to meet the needs of the Universal Exhibition of that year. It was expanded between 1907 and 1908, eventually having capacity for 285 trams. In 1976, the first two warehouses of the depot were decommissioned, being progressively enabled to display the heritage vehicles of the Brussels network. This fledgling museum opened to the public for the first time in June 1977. After entrusting the management of the museum to the MTUB in 1982, and after its renovation between 2006 and 2009, today it is a very complete and well-kept exhibition venue, with a large number of vehicles and objects lovingly maintained by MTUB volunteer members.
In addition to the museum's exhibits, during weekends from April to September (and one weekend a month the rest of the year), museum volunteers operate several heritage tram and bus lines. Here we see bus number 8366, type 420 HA St2/1 built by Van Hool in 1963, about to depart on the heritage line towards Tervuren Station.
Musée du Transport Urbain Bruxellois 24.09.2023
Musée du Transport Urbain Bruxellois (MTUB asbl): this non-profit association has managed the Brussels Transport Museum since 1982. It is located in the Woluwe tram depot, and occupies four of the six warehouses. The other two are still used by around thirty STIB/MIVB trams, which provide service on lines 18, 38 and 44.
The Woluwe depot was inaugurated in 1897, together with the Tervueren Avenue tram line, put into service to meet the needs of the Universal Exhibition of that year. It was expanded between 1907 and 1908, eventually having capacity for 285 trams. In 1976, the first two warehouses of the depot were decommissioned, being progressively enabled to display the heritage vehicles of the Brussels network. This fledgling museum opened to the public for the first time in June 1977. After entrusting the management of the museum to the MTUB in 1982, and after its renovation between 2006 and 2009, today it is a very complete and well-kept exhibition venue, with a large number of vehicles and objects lovingly maintained by MTUB volunteer members.
In addition to the museum's exhibits, during weekends from April to September (and one weekend a month the rest of the year), museum volunteers operate several heritage tram and bus lines. Here we see bus number 8366, type 420 HA St2/1 built by Van Hool in 1963, about to depart on the heritage line towards Tervuren Station.