Antwerp‘s photography museum FOMU, short for Fotomuseum, just reopened with an updated collection. Every year FOMU closes for a while to rearrange itself and change the exhibitions. It also uncovered a new logo.
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GALLO-ROMAN MUSEUM TONGEREN | ‘Antiquity in Colour’ exhibition until 2 June 2024
Tongeren (Tongres in French) in Limburg is the oldest city in Belgium, founded by the Romans in 10 AD as Atuatuca Tongrorum. Now it’s a city of 32,000 people and home of the Gallo-Roman Museum (Gallo-Romeins Museum). I hadn’t been since childhood. But until 2 June 2024 the museum hosts the ‘Antiquity in Colour‘ exhibition…
Dinner Train comes to Belgium
Dinner Train is expanding from the Netherlands to Belgium. The concept is simple, really, while you dine, Dinner Train travels on the rails. The first ride in Belgium is in Saint Nicholas (Sint-Niklaas, Saint-Nicolas), on Friday 1 March 2024.
MUSEUMS IN BELGIUM | museumPASSmusées looks back onto 2023 and forward to 2024
Belgium‘s museumPASSmusées or Museum Pass looks back ont 2023 and forward to 2024. In 2023, museumPASSmusées included over 235 participating museums all over Belgium. In Flanders, the Brussels-Capital Region and Wallonia.
City of Antwerp annexes Borsbeek, which becomes the tenth district on 1 January 2025
On Monday 18 December 2023, the municipal councils of both the City of Antwerp and the Town of Borsbeek approved the merge. Borsbeek will become the tenth district of Antwerp. Antwerp is unique in Flanders in that it has a two-tier system of municipal government with a city council and district councils.
BELGIUM | First Limburg Pride on Saturday 5 July 2025
Limburg Pride vzw wants its first pride parade on Saturday 5 July 2025. Which city of Limburg in Belgium will host the very first Limburg Pride, has to be decided. The organisation is currently talking to several possible venues, Bert Brone from Limburg Pride vzw says to GayLive.be.
In search of Belgian or Flemish cuisine in Antwerp
The Loodswezen on the Scheldt Quays in Antwerp is to become the Smaakhaven. The Flemish Government is investing a whopping 38 million euros to create a Flemish Culinary Centre. But what is Flemish cuisine, in extenso Belgian cuisine? Of course, Flanders being Flanders, and being governed by Flemish nationalists, it underlines the Flemishness of the…
LIMBURG | Bokrijk, an open-air museum of folk buildings heritage
On sunny October 2022 Tuesday, Jeroen and I visited Bokrijk, an open-air folk heritage museum near Genk in the province of Limburg. The Netherlands have the Nederlands Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem, Sweden has Skansen in Stockholm and Belgium has Bokrijk.
Legoland Belgium in Gosselies, Charleroi by 2027
Belgium is set to host the fourth Legoland amusement park in Europe. In 2027, the town of Gosselies near Charleroi in the province of Hainaut in Wallonia. The site used to host the Caterpillar machinery factory. The Walloon Government foresees 1,000 new jobs.
FORMULA 1 EUROPEAN GRAND PRIX | Valencia Street Circuit
The 2022 Formula 1 season is in full swing. Back in 2011 I visited Valencia in Spain with some friends. I couldn’t resist going to the Valencia Street Circuit.