Antwerp’s open-air sculpture museum began with 167 sculptures in Middelheim park in 1950. Seventy-five years on it holds about 440, across some 30 hectares, and still charges nothing.
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Learn about Lode Craeybeckx (1897-1976), the influential mayor of Antwerp, and his role in the city’s development during his tenure.
The University of Antwerp, at home in a mayor’s house of 1516
Antwerp’s university has existed in its present form only since 2003, and now has 24,827 students. Its roots go back to a Jesuit school of 1852, and its city campus to a mayor’s palace of 1516.