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Home Sweet Home

28.05.2014 - 14.09.2014

An exhibition on travel and coming home commemorates 50 years of migration from Morocco and Turkey to Belgium. Bülent Öztürk and Mashid Mohadjerin, two Antwerp artists, worked on this theme.

Photogallery Donors

23.09.2023 - 24.03.2024

Donors tend to fade into the background behind the objects they have given to the museum. But to celebrate our anniversary, we brought them out into the limelight. Photographer Koen Broos turned his camera on 10 of them: one for each year of the museum’s existence.  

Stories of refugees

01.04.2022 - 11.12.2022

70 years ago, 24 countries signed the Refugee Convention in Geneva. The new exhibition 'Stories of refugees' explores, beyond laws and political agreements, what it means to be on the run. From 1.04.2022 in the Shed.

Far from the War?

26.09.2014 - 5.04.2015

When the German army occupied Belgium in 1914, it suddenly became almost impossible for the Belgian immigrants in the United States to contact family members. How did the war affect their lives?

Destination Sweetheart

25.09.2020 - 26.09.2021

Migrants of love leave their homes, family and friends to build a future with their loved one. ‘Destination Sweetheart’ was an exhibition about migrating for love from the Red Star Line period to the present day. Letters, interviews and personal objects offered insight into heart-warming stories, as well confrontational ones. 

A welcome refugee - Einstein and Red Star Line

19.04.2024 - 24.11.2024

In this free exhibition, you could discover Einstein's close relationship with Antwerp, Belgium and Red Star Line. 

Homesickness. Between comfort and pride

18.05.2023 - 03.09.2023

You could travel along with nine artists and found out about their homesickness. Their ongoing search for what really matters, for what makes coming home so emotional.

Gaiska

19.03.2014 - 11.05.2014

The Red Star Line Museum exhibited the monumental works of the Venezuelan-Hungarian artist Gaiska. Gaiska is a painter who lives and works in Antwerp. This exhibition containted a series of paintings that were inspired by the historic pictorial material of the Red Star Line.

Cruise Away. See the world with the Red Star Line

14.10.2016 - 17.04.2017

The Red Star Line Museum brought the cruise era back to life with an exhibition, a book and a concert by the Flat Earth Society. The emphasis was on the stories of the passengers and crews of the Red Star Line's cruise ships.

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