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The Museum
of Road Signs and Signals
and street lighting
Belgian heritage
in miniature
With the help of the Museum of Road Signs and Street Lighting, the MuSé asbl, the Village is reproducing miniature equipment from yesteryear on its site. This equipment lined Belgian roads and motorways from before the Second World War to the early 2000s. This equipment has now disappeared.
Sign illuminated with fluorescent tubes. STOP sign used on our roads before 1975 (extended until 1 January 1981).
Motorway sign with the new pictogram. The green colour does not yet appear to be in use. This specific motorway logo replaces the "A" assigned by Belgium to this type of road.
Enamelled signal from before the Second World War.
Hectometric distance terminal used from the early 1980s until regionalisation (1989).
Signal used on Belgian national roads to warn users of the presence of a first-aid post.
Emergency call boxes. This equipment was installed on motorways and certain national roads every 2 kilometres. This equipment is now completely deactivated.
Floor lamp made in Herstal (ELSA, Gruella), fitted with fluorescent tubes, common on the roads of the province of Liège from the early 60s to the 90s.
Kilometre distance marker used from the early 1980s until regionalisation (1989).
Small sign indicating the nearest emergency call point. This sign was installed every 100 metres, and has been completely disused since the emergency call points disappeared.
Belgian floor lamp manufactured by Schréder, type GPN fitted with high-pressure sodium.
Traffic light from the Belgian company ATEA (Herentals).
VP luminaire manufactured by the Belgian company Schréder, fitted with fluorescent tubes, very common in the streets of Liège until the advent of sodium vapour.
Two-lens traffic light signal, predecessor of the three-lens signals. It was manufactured by the Belgian company ATEA (Herentals).
Westinghouse light signal from the 60s.
Sign used by the STIL (Société de Transports intercommunaux Liégeois), before the creation of the TEC.
Illuminated panel fitted with 18-watt fluorescent tubes.
Belisha" beacon deployed on Belgian roads after the Second World War until the early 1980s.
Stone milestone probably dating from the 40s and 50s.
Traffic signs dating from before 1975. The STOP sign configuration has since been replaced by the octagonal sign, and the arrow pictogram was also changed in 1975.
Delineator placed along roads after the Second World War, made of concrete and equipped with reflectors made of glass beads.
Particular floor lamp fitted with a filament lamp. Others contained sodium lamps.
Signposts equipped with fluorescent tubes, disappearing from the road network.
Signal light fixed to an old post, probably made of cast iron.
A very old signal, already dating from the Second World War, fitted with a filament bulb (incandescent) placed at the back of the spherical housing.
Z floor lamp by Schréder.
Work lantern from the 1980s, fitted with a filament bulb and two 6-volt batteries.
RT type sodium vapour floodlight manufactured by Schréder.
Old "ball" type streetlight, fitted with mercury vapour or sodium lamps.
Rx floor lamp from Schréder. Very common on Belgian roads and motorways from the early 1970s to around 2019.
A very old floor lamp fitted with a filament (incandescent) bulb. This type of lamp appeared when electricity was introduced into public lighting. When fluorescent tubes were introduced, this small lamp was fitted with a compact fluorescent bulb.
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