Antwerp will open the doors of 31 museums and cultural institutions on Saturday 1 August 2026 for the 20th edition of Museumnacht or Museum Night, with the anniversary edition expanding to 13 guest venues and welcoming 11 new participants.
Tag: Art
PROGRAMME | Antwerp Queer Arts Festival 2026 from Friday 19 June to Sunday 16 August
“We’ve been doing this for 13 years”, Antwerp Queer Arts Festival says. Since 2013, AQAF organises a queer, more edgy, more ‘alternative’, less polished, less gentrified (?) festival for LGBTQIA+ people in the summer. It runs alongside Antwerp Pride.
Italy welcomes more than 185 million visitors as tourism surges 7.1% in record year 2025
Italy’s tourism industry reached another historic milestone in 2025, with more than 185 million arrivals recorded across the country as international demand for Italian culture, cities, beaches and cuisine continued to grow strongly. New figures from the Italian Interior Ministry’s ‘Alloggiati Web’ system show that total arrivals increased by 7.1% compared with 2024, rising from…
LATVIA | 1.5 days in Riga
August 2025. We’re travelling to the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and more specifically their respective capitals Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. Are they interconnected by rail? Yes, but not in the most straightforward or userfriendly way possible. The Rail Baltica project should remedy this. Unsurprisingly though, this megaproject faces political and budgetary hurdles. It…
Antwerp Queer Arts Festival 2026 unveils diverse programme, from 19 June to 16 August
queer, more edgy, more ‘alternative’, less polished, less gentrified (?) festival for LGBTQIA+ people in the summer. It runs alongside Antwerp Pride.
DENVER | RiNo Art District – Coors Field – Lower Downtown – Union Station
September 2025. After Oscar came to London in June 2024 and I joined him there for a day, I’m now going to his hometown of Denver in Colorado. My second trip to the United States in 2025, after visiting my uncle and aunt in Wilmington, North Carolina. No, Denver is is not on foreign tourists’…
ANTWERP | Antony Gormley’s ‘Geestgrond’ opens at KMSKA as the most comprehensive solo exhibition of the artist in Europe
On Saturday 23 May 2026, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, KMSKA) will open ‘Antony Gormley. Geestgrond‘, the largest and most comprehensive solo exhibition of the legendary British artist ever staged on the European mainland.
ANTWERP | Middelheimmuseum presents ‘Monster Chetwynd. A Friends Making Machine’: first Belgian solo show and open-air exhibition for British artist
The Middelheimmuseum in Antwerp will present ‘Monster Chetwynd. A Friends Making Machine’, the British artist’s first museum solo exhibition in Belgium and her first-ever open-air show, from 16 May to 11 October 2026.
ANTWERP | St James’ Church (Sint-Jacobskerk) fully reopens after seven years of restoration
After an extensive seven-year restoration, the monumental St James’ Church (Sint-Jacobskerk) in Antwerp will fully reopen its doors to the public. From Friday 15 May, visitors will once again be able to explore the church and its rich heritage in all its glory.
GERMANY | Introducing Cologne
November and December 2017. During my solo trip to Taiwan – the vacation which was a catalyst to start Trip By Trip – I met Ugo. Fast forward to August 2025. Ugo is touring Europe and we decided to meet up. Showing him Antwerp was an option, but fitting the metropolis into his itinerary was…