Harry Rutten, a Dutch former shipowner, opened Museum De Reede on the Ernest Van Dijckkaai in 2017. It shows nothing but prints, and gives Goya, Rops and Munch a room each.
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Museum Plantin-Moretus: 450 years of printing on the Vrijdagmarkt
Christophe Plantin moved his presses to the Vrijdagmarkt in 1576, and the city bought the whole firm in 1876. Closed for renovation since August, the museum reopens on 5 December 2026.
Easter in Antwerp: Rubens, a printing house, a zoo and 4,460 bikes
Easter 2027 falls on 28 and 29 March. Antwerp has no Easter market, but its cathedral holds the Rubens Passion paintings, and one of them is away for restoration.
Antwerp’s Cathedral of Our Lady took 169 years to build
Building started in 1352 and stopped, one tower short, in 1521. Inside are four works by Rubens, though one of them is away being restored for at least two years.