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Death is Living Culture at Funeral Museum Tot Zover
31 October 2023
A funeral museum does not immediately appeal to the imagination. But Tot Zover (So Far) in Amsterdam knows how to surprise us with exhibitions that are informative, thought-provoking, touch a sensitive chord and make you laugh. No taboo is shunned here, and funeral cake is just as much a subject as
Nothing Stands Between the Viewer and Art in Food Art Museum LAM
3 February 2023
Hidden in the nineteenth-century park behind the world's most famous tulip garden Keukenhof is the only food art museum in the Netherlands. The LAM takes a critical look at consumption but avoids approaching it with moralism and art historical jargon.
Journey Through the Glorious History of Bruges at the Gruuthuse Museum
8 July 2022
The restoration of the Gruuthuse Museum in the historic centre of Bruges took five years, but now, the former 15th-century city palace is a unique museum where visitors can discover the city’s rich past through the stories behind more than six hundred objects. Each level recounts the story of a di
At Bokrijk the Past Inspires the Present
8 July 2022
If you want to see and experience how things used to be in the Flemish countryside, you will find plenty to do at Bokrijk Open-Air Museum. But the museum, located in a large park in the Belgian province of Limburg, is not stuck in the past. The clogs and rustic farmhouses are meant to make us think
C-mine Expedition Keeps Limburg Mining History Alive
25 June 2021
If you approach the city of Genk in Belgian Limburg, you will see slag heaps looming in the landscape. They refer to the mining past that is so strongly linked to the identity of this part of the province. At the creative hub C-mine, built on a former mining site, they bring that past to life in an
Nxt Museum: A Black Box for Digital Art in Former Siberia
24 November 2020
Nxt Museum represents both a new museum for Amsterdam and an art institution for a new generation. Contents, appearance and organisation are all out of the ordinary.
MIMA: The Museum That Wants to Be a Game
21 October 2019
By paying attention to urban culture at large, the MIMA in Brussels opens itself up to a young and hip generation. The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art wants to present “cultural history 2.0”, with special attention for talent that has been pushed into the margin. In order to do so, the museu