The KMSKA reopened in 2022 after eleven years and more than €100 million. KAAN Architecten built a second museum inside the 1890 palace, and more than 570,000 people came in 2025.
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Middelheim Museum: 75 years of free sculpture in an Antwerp park
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.
Museum De Reede: Goya, Rops and Munch on the Scheldt quay
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.