July 2024. Steve and I are cruising on the Norwegian Getaway, a Breakaway class ship by Norwegian Cruise Line or NCL. Interestingly, our stay on board happened shortly after the Getaway paid a visit to the dry dock for some refurbishments. The route? Piraeus, which is the port of Athens in Greece; followed by Mykonos;…
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ANTWERP | ‘To the Antarctic. The polar pioneers of the Belgica’ exhibition at Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS)
Since 21 June, summer solstice, the Museum Aan de Stroom (Museum At the Stream) or MAS in Antwerp hosts the ‘To the Antarctic. The polar pioneers of the Belgica‘. In Belgium, Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery‘s adventure is as famous as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton‘s Antarctic voyages are in the United Kingdom…
ANTWERP | Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS) hosts ‘To Antarctica. The polar pioneers of the Belgica’ exhibition until 3 November 2024
The new exhibition ‘To Antarctica. The polar pioneers of the Belgica‘ at Antwerp‘s MAS museum opens today. 125 years ago, the Belgica expedition members left Antwerp for the last blind spot on the world map: Antarctica.
Antwerp’s municipal museums welcomed over 1.5 million visitors in 2023
In 2023, more than 1.5 million visitors found their way to the exhibitions and permanent collections of the municipal museums managed by the City of Antwerp, bringing the museums back to the numbers they were in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
2024 at the museums of Antwerp ft. Ensor Year
The City of Antwerp‘s museums are preparing to welcome visitors again in 2024 with numerous new exhibitions and projects. The Middelheim Museum, together with De Singel, organizes ‘Come Closer‘: an exciting exchange between sculpture and performance. The Rubens House will open the new reception building in the summer and the autumn will be dedicated to…
ICELAND | Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights at Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach near Vík
Iceland in November and December? Really? I saw an Icelandair promotion on Instagram which I couldn’t resist. The catch? It had to be late November to the start of December 2022. But I could – easily – enthuse Oriol to come along for a road trip in the South and West of Iceland.
AREAS OF ANTWERP | De Gerlachekaai at the Scheldt
De Gerlachekaai or De Gerlache Quay in Antwerp has recently been redeveloped. It will be used by Antwerp Pride for its 2022 edition in August as “the large festival site”.
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