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.
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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.
ANTWERP | New railway ‘Spoorpark’ park between Zurenborg and Borgerhout to be named Statiepark
A new park between Antwerp‘s Zurenborg neighbourhood and Borgerhout is set to be named Statiepark. The green space, located alongside the railway tracks between Draakplaats and Luitenant Naeyaertplein, is expected to open in the summer of 2027.
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.
10 things to do at your next Gran Canaria visit
This weekend the Maspalomas Pride Parade 2026 culminates with the parade in Playa del Inglés. Many LGBT tourists will be locking themselves up in the gay bars of Yumbo Shopping Centre. But why not enjoy the entire island on your next visit? I rented a car, traveled the island and experienced first-hand ten things that…
ANTWERP | Final design approved for Ringpark Groene Vesten: four sub-parks in Berchem to be built from late 2027
The Council of Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Antwerp has approved the final design for Ringpark Groene Vesten, a project that will connect eight sub-parks just outside the Antwerp Ring road into a continuous green belt.
PHOTOS | The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei Park
Autumn 2025. We – Sam and Danny, Michel and Wille, and Timothy – are travelling to Japan for a quite classic tour of the Land of the Rising Sun. We are flying separately as we used miles. On the planning: Tokyo, Kanazawa, Shirakawa, Osaka, and Expo 2025, Hiroshima, Himeji, Miyajima, Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya, Hakone, and…
ANTWERP | Planting of trees means Zurenborg – Borgerhout Spoorpark is on schedule for summer of 2027
The relocation of a key technical building in 2025 has cleared the final obstacle for the creation of Antwerp’s new Spoorpark (Railway Park), which is set to open in the summer of 2027. The project will establish a green, two-hectare link between Zurenborg and the Luitenant Naeyaertplein in Borgerhout, running alongside the railway tracks. The…
PARIS | Boulevard de Sébastopol – Tour Saint-Jacques – Institut du monde arabe – Le Remontalou – Coulée verte René-Dumont & Viaduc des Arts – Place de la Bastille – Rue Pierre Seel – Hôtel de Ville – Rue des Mauvais-Garçons – Place des Vosges
On Thursday 11 December 2025, six months after opening and one month after closing on 11 January 2026, I travelled to Paris in France for the ‘Le mystère Cléopâtre‘ or ‘The Cleopatra Mystery‘ exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe (Institute of the Arab World). An excuse to visit the Light City, even if it…
SOUTH KOREA 2024 | Impressions and observations
Autumn 2024. Ten years after my first trip to Seoul in 2014, I am returning to the Republic of Korea, better known as South Korea. Not solo this time, but with Oriol, who has never been to Korea. On the itinerary: flying with Qatar Airways to Incheon via Doha, the capital Seoul, the historic city…