Napoleon ordered Antwerp’s first dock here in 1811. The old dock district now holds the MAS, the Red Star Line sheds, the city archive and a two-star restaurant in a warehouse of 1895.
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The Red Star Line Museum keeps Antwerp’s emigrant sheds open
About two million emigrants passed through the Red Star Line’s sheds on Antwerp’s Rijnkaai between 1873 and 1934. Since 2013 the same buildings have held the museum that tells their story, from Einstein’s resignation letter to Irving Berlin’s piano.