It is not a big museum, rather a kind of boutique museum, but it offers a very interesting and informative tour about the history and value that Diamonds acquired for humans through history. It is very important to attend the cutting and polishing demonstration provided only at 12.15 every day, which is the only place where you are allowed to take pictures during the visit. At the souvenir store, I found a nice book : " Diamonds ", written by Marijan Dundek, with a lot of verified information and many nice photos.

2 stars because I learned that Antwerp supplies 50% of the world's cut diamonds today. And there is a bathroom in the museum. Otherwise one star. Expensive for 30 min. It was very dull. The interactive displays wasn't working. No one to answer questions. I thought the diamond polishing demo was included but that was only available once per day. The person there did offer to give us a return ticket for the next day so we can see it, which was nice. A must skip in Bruge.

The museum lack authenticity. Diamonds, the main subject, are too expensive so imitations are prevalent. This extends to much of the rest of the museum. One of the displays is a tunnel showing a diamond worker except the worker is about half life size. I think the intent is to show the claustrophobic working conditions but by making the worker clearly the wrong size it casts doubt on the rest of the message. 30 minutes distraction as about all this museum has to offer.