Calendar

The Red Star Line Museum is everything but a traditional museum. Here's an overview of our activities.

Collecting stories

The Red Star Line Museum is a place where stories of people’s journeys - anytime, anywhere, past and present - come to life. At the museum’s core is a collection of hundreds of such highly personal accounts.

Our exhibitions

The Red Star Line Museum has a lot to offer. In addition to the permanent display, we also host temporary exhibitions in a stunning building with an extensive collection.

Migrating Memories

29th annual AEMI meeting

The Red Star Line Museum hosts the 29th annual AEMI meeting which will take place from october 2nd to october 5th. Find the program here.

Fieldwork. Refugee experiences in Antwerp

7.11.2019 - 3.8.2020

Many newcomers in Antwerp have come to our country as refugees. In a time in which more is spoken about them, rather than with them, their stories are worth hearing.

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. 

How and when to get here

When is the museum open and how do you get here?

Leopold longs for an adventurous life in Canada

He fought for his dream for more than 20 years

In the course of 20 years, Leopold Lybeer worked as a railway builder and herdsman in Canada. The financial crisis and his wife's nostalgia ended his Canadian adventure. Leopold would never forget the pristine landscape of Canada.

The Film 'Only One New York'

In 1963 Jan Yoors and the French film director Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau made the film Only One New York. Gaisseau won the first Oscar for a documentary in 1961 with the film Le Ciel et la Boue. The film documents a Franco-Dutch expedition through Dutch New Guinea. It focuses on tribes of cannibals.

The origin of Jan Yoors: Eugène Yoors and Magda Peeters

The influence of Eugène Yoors and Magda Peeters on the life and work of their son should not be underestimated.