Last week I showed some doors of the Grand Place in Brussels. That area is truly stunning, but it’s touristy, and it’s not everything that the city has to offer. Here are a couple of decidedly different doors, each with a sense of fun. A party store, with a minion inside.
And in the spirit of noting, and honoring, the gate/door relationship (as I did with the Brandenberger Tor earlier in this series . . . Notice the resemblance?)
I would like to show the Arcade du Cinquantenaire, a magnificent triumphal arch in the center of Cinquantenaire Park, built in 1880 for the 50th anniversary of Belgian independence.
One of these pathways leads to the Royal Army and Military History Museum. For this, I’ve got a real door:
They were also filming a movie in the park while we were there. There was fake smoke being generated from these sausage-like balloons, and people milling about in costume.
At one point someone signaled, and the whole crowd ran through the gate, yelling and pushing this cart that looked like a draped coffin. The cameras were close enough not to get the crane in the background. That would have spoiled the effect!
Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post and then sharing it, between Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American Eastern Time), on the linky list at Norm 2.0’s blog.
Follow my European trip with this and previous posts:
November 22, 2018: Grand Place, Brussels
November 1, 2018: Belgian Beer and Chocolate
October 27, 2018: Dutch Whimsy
October 18, 2018: Nordrhein-Westfalen
October 11, 2018: Landschaftspark
September 6, 2018: Birdhouse Cache
August 30, 2018: Achtung, Baby!
June 13, 2018: Thursday “Tors”: Brandenburg
A Thousand Finds 
The shot looking up into the museum entranceway gives it an imposing feel. The party store seems fun and it must have been interesting to stumble onto a movie set too.
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