A masterpiece every few steps
An English park where you meet Rodin and Moore without walls.
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Yes for a stay of two days or more, and for those who dislike enclosed museums: free, calm and beautiful, its art discovered rather than displayed. Ideal for families. Combine it with the neighbouring Nachtegalenpark or a morning in the Zuid on the way. In rain: the KMSKA fits better.
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The Middelheim Museum is among Europe's foremost open-air sculpture museums, and entirely free: a broad park (30 hectares) south of Antwerp strewn with more than two hundred sculptures among lawns, veteran trees and lakes — from Rodin, Maillol and Zadkine to Henry Moore, and from Panamarenko (his flying machines) to Ai Weiwei and contemporary artists with works made for the site. Its strength is the blend: you stroll a lovely English park and meet a masterpiece every few steps, without walls, tickets or crowds — the museum loved by those who hate museums. A small indoor pavilion (the "glass house") holds fragile works, major summer exhibitions rotate, and a café sits on a lawn. For families: children run among the sculptures, and they are meant to. Twenty minutes by tram or bus from the centre (tram 7 or bus) — a green, artistic half-day away from the city, especially in spring and autumn.
An English park where you meet Rodin and Moore without walls.
The Antwerp artist's fantastical flying machines.
A pavilion for fragile works and summer shows.
Middelheimlaan 61, 2020 Antwerp