The municipality proper has known a lot of successful racing cyclists for example Odiel Defraeye, the first Belgian winner of the Tour of France and several world-champions: Jean-Pierre Monseré, Benoni Beheyt, Patrick Sercu and Freddy Maertens.

In the beginning, the museum only showed a few old bicycles and organized an exhibition in summer.

Old-racing cyclist Freddy Maertens worked from 2000 till 2007 at the museum and often, he welcomed the visitors.

After some years, the museum became more and more specialized in professional cycle-racing, and collected a lot of racing bicycles, cycling trophies and -souvenirs, cycling clothes and portraits of famous racing cyclists.

Another hall shows an old workshop of bicycle-maker Hallaert where you can learn about the technical evolution of the bicycle.

The building was also used for several public services such as a festive hall, a school, sport accommodation and a folkloristic museum.