The Société Royale d’Harmonie opened its concert hall and garden on the Mechelsesteenweg in 1846. The city bought both in 1923, and since 2021 the ballroom has been the district’s town hall.
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The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, 363 years old and famous for fashion
David Teniers founded Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1663. Its fashion course, started in 1963, produced the Antwerp Six, and its most famous student, Vincent van Gogh, was told to repeat a year.