Belgium News » Antwerp News Belgium » Antwerp » Culture: Is Antwerp Finally Ready To Reckon With Its Role In The Holocaust?
As Europe remembers the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, the history of the Holocaust remains contested and challenged. Many Europeans are still reluctant to fully own their past. In ...
News Belgium » Antwerp » Culture: Antwerp like a local
Take a stroll: Most visitors arrive by train, putting them close to sights such as the Antwerp Zoo, the Chocolate Nation museum and the Diamond District, which is home to long-established jewellers ...
News Belgium » Antwerp » Culture: Young Fair Art Antwerp Leans Into the City’s Centuries-Old Collecting Culture
Antwerp has been a hub for collectors for centuries—research has shown that as early as the 1500s, 90 percent of homeowners in Antwerp owned at least one portrait or religious painting. Against this ...
News Belgium » Antwerp » Culture: Antwerp Six: How six Belgian designers changed fashion’s course globally
The Antwerp Six designers from Belgium, with six novel propositions about how people might want to dress, somehow went on to change global fashion. Photo: MoMu In 1986 six graduates of the Royal ...
News Belgium » Antwerp » Culture: The art of war: MAS Antwerp explores history and heritage of martial arts
A new exhibition at MAS Antwerp explores martial arts as culture, identity and community, bringing together global traditions and local stories beyond the fight. Fighting is one of the oldest things ...
News Belgium » Antwerp » Culture: Botanic Sanctuary Antwerp: a wellness haven in northern Belgium
Antwerp is a city known for its design and its diamonds. It is often overlooked by travellers, who flock to Brussels and Bruges in search of Gothic architecture and picturesque canals, but this old ...