Diamantmuseum

While Antwerp is now the center of the diamond industry, the idea of polishing the stones with diamond "dust" was originally pioneered in Bruges. This is the theme of this slick museum, which also displays a lumpy, greenish 252-carat raw diamond and explains how the catchphrase "diamonds are forever" started as a De Beers marketing campaign. The tone is celebratory, and the narrative skims a little too lightly over the racist, colonial history of diamond mining.