On Saturday 1 November, All Saints’ Day, Antwerp’s museums and heritage institutions will be open, while most other city services will remain closed.

Up-to-date opening hours for all city services can be found on their respective pages at http://www.antwerpen.be. It is recommended to check in advance whether a service is open or operating with adjusted hours. For further information, residents can call the city’s contact centre on weekdays between 9 AM and 5 PM. at 03 22 11 333. The contact centre will be closed on Saturday 1 November.

All city museums and heritage institutions will welcome visitors on 1 November. Several exhibitions can be explored that day. At the Museum At the Stream (MAS), visitors can enjoy the new exhibition ‘Universal Tongue‘, which showcases dance styles from around the world. 

The Red Star Line Museum hosts ‘Goeie Reis‘, an interactive exhibition for children aged one and older about journeys and departures. 

At the Museum Plantin-Moretus, the exhibition ‘Women’s business/ Business women‘ tells the stories of often invisible women who played key roles in the historic printing house. 

While the Museum Mayer van den Bergh is closed for renovation, the Maagdenhuis presents ‘Public’s favourites‘, an exhibition featuring favourite artworks chosen by museum visitors. 

Fashion museum ModeMuseum (MoMu) offers ‘Girls‘, which explores what it means to be a girl through fashion and imagery. The city’s libraries, however, will be closed on 1 November.

The Visit Antwerpen visitor centre and the Antwerp City Shop in Het Steen will be open from 10 AM to 6 PM, and the Antwerp City Shop at Central Station will open from 9 AM to 5 PM.

City and regional service desks will be closed on Saturday 1 November, as will all municipal swimming pools, sports halls, and recycling parks.

Art and museums in Antwerp

• 2028 to be Music Year in Antwerp.
• ANTWERP | MAS celebrates the universal language of dance with ‘Universal Tongue’, from 25 October 2025 to 4 January 2026.
• ANTWERP | Flemish government cancels €130 million new museum building for M HKA in Antwerp.
• MOMU | ‘GIRLS. On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between’, 27 September 2025 to 1 February 2026.
• ANTWERP | Museum Plantin-Moretus highlights 300 years of women’s stories in ‘Women’s Business / Business Women’.
• Antwerp fashion museum MoMu will mark 40 years of The Antwerp Six with exhibition.
• ANTWERP | Museum Mayer van den Bergh opens exhibition ‘Public Favourites’, from Mad Meg to Delft Blue, look at art through other people’s eyes.
• ANTWERP | Museum Night 2025 on Saturday 2 August.
• ANTWERP | Middelheim Museum celebrates 75 years with a summer full of new ways to experience the art park.
• M HKA 2025 |​ Bruno Zhu – Panamarenko – ‘The Situation is Fluid’ – Today’s Place – Hugo Roelandt.
• ANTWERP | ‘These Branching Moments’ – ‘.tiff 2025′ – ”OM/MOTHER’: 3 new exhibitions at FOMU, from 28 June 2025.
• ANTWERP | ‘Panamarenko. Infinite Imagination’ exhibition until 4 May 2025 at KMSKA.
• ANTWERP | ‘Compassion’ in the MAS: the many faces of compassion.
• 2025 at the museums of Antwerp.
• 2025 at Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp (KMSKA): René Magritte, Marthe Donas, Panamarenko, Hans Op de Beeck.
• ANTWERP | Graphics Museum De Reede ft. Francisco Goya, Edvard Munch, Félicien Rops and Albrecht Dürer.
• ANTWERP | Rubens Experience and Rubens Garden at Rubenshuis.
• ANTWERP | Innovations in the Middelheim Museum provide a completely new visitor experience.
• A visit of the Flemish Tram and Bus Museum – Vlaams Tram- en Autobusmuseum (VlaTAM) in Antwerp.
• ANTWERP | Discovering queer(ed) art with the Queer Tour at the KMSKA fine arts museum.
• REVIEW | Illusion Antwerpen, an active and photogenic museum.
• Antwerp museums and sports facilities team up with European Disability Card for accessible leisure activities.
• Museum Mayer van den Bergh.
• ANTWERP | Inside Rubens House.
• Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp.
• ANTWERP | Museum Vleeshuis up for restoration.
• BOOK | ‘Antwerp. An Archaeological View on the Origin of the City’ by Tim Bellens.
• Red Star Line Museum.
• Paleis op de Meir. 
• DIVA, Antwerp Home of Diamonds.
• ANTWERP | Red Star Line Museum of (e)migration.