Illusion Antwerpen opened just a week ago. After seeing a report on Antwerp‘s regional television ATV, I decided to go and have a look. It helps I live really nearby.
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ANTWERP | Diamond museum DIVA reopens on Friday 24 March 2023
DIVA is the museum for diamonds, jewellery and silver located near the main square or Grote Markt of Antwerp. Over the centuries, Antwerp has always held a unique and important position for the diamond trade in the world. Currently, DIVA’s permanent exhibition is undergoing a transformation. The museum will reopen on Friday, the 24th of…
Antwerp museums and sports facilities team up with European Disability Card for accessible leisure activities
The City of Antwerp has entered into a partnership with the European Disability Card (EDC) and thus makes city-run culture, sports and leisure activities even more accessible to people with a disability.
BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG | Staatsgalerie Stuttgart art museum
July 2022. As a teacher, Steve has the possibility to do a bigger trip in the school summer break. I don’t, or rarely do. After The Hague in 2020 and Utrecht in 2021, we decided to go to Germany for a now more or less traditional three-day weekend in July. Our eye fell on Stuttgart,…
REVIEW | Motion and emotion at the London Transport Museum
During his latest London trip in January 2023 Dennis De Roover visited the London Transport Museum. London is an absolute pioneer when it comes to public transport with some of the oldest trains and the oldest tube in the world. Being such a big city with big distances to cross, transport has always played a…
REVIEW | Porsche Museum in Stuttgart
July 2022. As a teacher, Steve has the possibility to do a bigger trip in the school summer break. I don’t, or rarely do. After The Hague in 2020 and Utrecht in 2021, we decided to go to Germany for a now more or less traditional three-day weekend in July. Our eye fell on Stuttgart,…
BRUGES | ‘Queer Was Here’ arts festival from 4 to 26 March 2023
Musea Brugge (Museums Bruges) is organising the arts festival ‘Queer Was Here‘, from Saturday 4 to Sunday 26 March 2023 at Salon Arents in Bruges.
FOMU 2023 | Reimagined collection, strippers – Nicaragua – Kurdistan and people touching each other
FOMU, Antwerp‘s photography museum in the Zuid (South) area of town, reopened after renovation works.
EXHIBITION | ‘Homosexuals and Lesbians in Nazi Europe’, Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen
Until 10 December 2023 Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen is showcasing the temporary exhibition ‘Homosexuals and Lesbians in Nazi Europe‘. As the title straightforwardly gives away, the exhibition recounts the woes of gay and lesbian people in a continent torn by two wars, the rise of fascism and nazism and how victims of nazi (inspired) persecution…
ANTWERP | 2022 tourism statistics show recovery towards 2019 numbers
The City of Antwerp is happy with 2022 tourism statistics, which confirm the upward trends of 2021. “2022 confirms the positive trend that had already started in 2021: many domestic and foreign tourists found their way back to Antwerp“, the city governments says in a press release.