Expected

Next exhibitions will be expected in the Red Star Line Museum.

Currently on view

The temporary exhibitions.

Red Star Line wins public award!

The Red Star Line Museum received the public award of the annual Museum of the Year Award.

Stijn and Sofie are going to New York

Stijn and Sofie are the winners of the contest ‘1 year Red Star Line Museum’! Next year they will be travelling to New York on the Queen Mary 2.

Yiddish advertisement

Antwerp was a particularly popular port of emigration among Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. These people constituted a sizeable proportion of the Red Star Line’s passengers. The shipping company recruited its “customers” from deep within Eastern Europe.

Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp nominated for European Museum of the Year Award 2015!

The Red Star Line Museum has been nominated for the prestigious European Museum of the Year Award 2015. Together with the Museum on the Yser in Diksmuide, it is one of 42 candidates on the list.

World Cruise News

During Red Star Line cruises, the World Cruise News newspaper was printed. The publication was free, and came out three times a week.

François De Ridder

François De Ridder was hired by the Red Star Line as a ‘writer’, in charge of passenger records.

Adine Wili

Well-to-do children also came on cruises. Adine Wili was eleven years old when she boarded the Lapland with her parents in 1932.

Anonymous

Scott Henderson, a friendly Canadian, donated this album to the Red Star Line Museum a few years ago.