From 16 June 2027 to 11 November 2028, the Province of West Flanders, together with Westtoer/Toerisme Westhoek, Toerisme Vlaanderen and local partners, will organise ‘Monuments & Moments‘, a new World War I theme year in the Westhoek region.
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LATVIA | Riga Castle
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 | Art in the City (Kunst in de Stad) collection now online
For the first time, the City of Antwerp‘s public art collection has been made digitally accessible. Thanks to this new online collection database, everyone can now easily access and study this unique collection of artworks.
RED STAR LINE MUSEUM ANTWERP | ‘Drifting Belgians’, the incredible journey of the ghost walkers, until 30 August 2026
Since 1 April 2026, the exhibition ‘Drifting Belgians‘ has been on view at the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp. In this exhibition, visual artist Mashid Mohadjerin explores the stories of Belgian migrants who, in the 1920s, disguised beneath white sheets, attempted to cross into the United States via Canada.
FLANDERS | Six heritage organisations receive new official recognition mark
In September 2025, he Flemish Minister of Culture, Caroline Gennez (Vooruit), has officially recognised six collection-managing organisations: Archief Lier, the University Archives of KU Leuven, Kunstenbibliotheek & Muziekbibliotheek in Ghent, Liberation Garden in Leopoldsburg (Bourg-Léopold) HEY Museum in Knokke-Heist and Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen (Malines, Mechlin)
‘Freedom’ by Erwin Olaf enters final days at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
On 2 April, I went to Amsterdam in the Netherlands with the EuroCity Direct to interview Ype Driessen of Fotostrips.nl on his first textual novel ‘Vanilla‘. I decided to combine it with a cultural activity.
REVIEW | ‘The Antwerp Six’ exhibition at fashion museum MoMu
Forty years after their breakthrough in London in 1986, an exuberant exhibition dedicated to the Antwerp Six has opened at the ModeMuseum or MoMu fashion museum Antwerp.
ESTONIA | How to spend a day in Tallinn
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 | ‘Plantin’s Plants’ exhibition at Museum Plantin-Moretus until 2 August 2026
In 2026, the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp is celebrating the 500th birthday of Carolus Clusius (1526-1609), a doctor and botanist from the Low Countries. With that in mind, the museum is inviting you to come and see the most attractive botanical images from the 16th to the 20th centuries from its own collections, with the…
TALLINN | LGBT tour at Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom
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…