This National Glass Institute museum (easily recognisable by its reddish tinted-glass windows) presents the history of glassmaking techniques and art from Antiquity to the present day. A room on the ground floor houses the Charleroi Archaeological M..

The Town Hall and its 70m-high belfry, designed by J. André and J. Cézar, were built in 1936. The Art Deco interior houses a Museum of Fine Arts with paintings by F.-J. Navez (born in Charleroi and student of David), C. Meunier, P. Paulus, Magritte..

Part of the Sunday market is held on this huge square, lined by the Exhibition Hall from 1954 and Palais des Beaux-Arts (exhibitions, concerts and various performances).