The Direct Index
Report · Brussels tours, attractions and museums · scanned 2026-10-14

Musée de la ville de Bruxelles - Museum van de Stad Brussel

brusselscitymuseum.brussels is hard for agents to use.

Cette page en français · Deze pagina in het Nederlands

Book directly: www.brusselscitymuseum.brussels/fr/contactez-nous/reservatio on the business's own site · Menu: www.brusselscitymuseum.brussels/

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D
54.3%

43.4 of 80 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

4

things to fix

Action test, 2026-10-14: failed, an agent cannot act here. The booking or ordering page is behind a challenge or a block.

Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (TouristAttraction, Museum, TravelAgency or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.4 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (http_429) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  3. robots.txt blocks ClaudeBot +1.3 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  4. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Brussels tours, attractions and museums. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Museum",
  "name": "Musée de la ville de Bruxelles - Museum van de Stad Brussel",
  "url": "https://www.brusselscitymuseum.brussels/",
  "telephone": "+32 2 279 43 50",
  "email": "musea@brucity.be",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 50.8469765,
    "longitude": 4.3527807
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-Su 10:00-17:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "17:00"
    }
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.brusselscitymuseum.brussels/fr/contactez-nous/reservation-de-groupes",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Musée de la ville de Bruxelles - Museum van de Stad Brussel

> museum in Brussels tours, attractions and museums. Phone +32 2 279 43 50.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.brusselscitymuseum.brussels/fr/contactez-nous/reservation-de-groupes (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.brusselscitymuseum.brussels/

## Opening hours

Tu-Su 10:00-17:00

## About

- Website: https://www.brusselscitymuseum.brussels/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

69 of 117 in Brussels tours, attractions and museums

Top 59% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Musée des Égouts - Riolenmuseum C, Musée national de la Résistance - Nationaal Museum van de Weerstand C. Just below: Maison de l'Histoire européenne - Huis van de Europese geschiedenis D, GardeRobe MannekenPis D.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML33%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours0%no
Have an llms.txt17%no

The top tenth is the 12 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 35,830 sites57%26%54.3%

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Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlno how
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

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Agent-Direct Score D

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Owners

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