The Maagdenhuis (Maidens’ Dwelling) in the Lange Gasthuisstraat in Antwerp will be offered a new cultural reason. In the shorter phrase, in addition to the main assortment of the Maagdenhuis, portion of the assortment of Museum Mayer van den Bergh will also be quickly housed. In addition, the Antwerp cultural-social organisation GATAM vzw will shift there, and Tutti Fratelli vzw will also have non permanent excess area there.
The Maagdenhuis is located in a historic developing from the 16th and 17th hundreds of years in the Lange Gasthuisstraat. In the previous it served as an orphanage for ladies, and is at present a museum for Antwerp’s foundling, orphan and bad care by way of the generations.
Critical for a new objective for the Maagdenhuis is, on the one hand, safeguarding the core selection of the Maagdenhuis and the social tale of the web page, and on the other hand, building an up-to-day and fashionable procedure with a sustainable long run.
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Museum character is retained
In the shorter term, from 2024 to 2027, a momentary style for the use of place at the locale will be drawn up. The museum functionality is retained: the main collection of the Maagdenhuis remains.
And throughout the restoration and renovation works in the nearby Museum Mayer van den Bergh, element of the museum assortment, which in overall has a lot more than sixty masterpieces on the Flemish masterpieces list, will be provided a temporary residence in the Maagdenhuis. Museum Mayer van den Bergh is operating with (groups of) Antwerp people to develop a temporary exhibition that focuses on their unique stories about the museum selection. The end result of this participation system will be accessible to go to in the Maagdenhuis from the spring of 2025 to 2027.
Exploratory discussions have been also held with the Antwerp cultural-social subject with a view to exceptional use of space. The corporations GATAM vzw and Tutti Fratelli vzw were being chosen to be a part of forces at short recognize: in conditions of eyesight, mission and procedure, they are intently aligned with the information that the Maagdenhuis needs to go on to express, specifically treatment for the susceptible.
GATAM vzw has operating with folks with the best distance to the labour industry as the core of its mission. It connects people today with every single other and with the labor sector, as very well as citizens and communities in the city. This eyesight suits in seamlessly with the ambition to retain the social facet of the website in the new objective of the Maagdenhuis.
GATAM vzw has been organising schooling for kitchen area workers for non-indigenous speakers in Antwerp for extra than 10 many years. They are usually searching for new, also short term, destinations.
The collaboration in between GATAM vzw and REantwerp, a vogue studio that believes area anchoring, social relationship and additional notice to craft are critical values, will also have a spot in the existing buildings of the Maagdenhuis until eventually 2027.
In addition to the social facet of this momentary use of area, there is also a historical hyperlink with the first purpose of the Maagdenhuis. In the past, orphan ladies were taught house jobs, these as cooking and stitching, so that they could later be used by households as maids.
Theatre
Tutti Fratelli vzw is a social-artistic workshop and makes theatre with men and women who have had and have fewer options in their lives. The organisation will also have a place in the Maagdenhuis. The Maagdenhuis is a ‘roof for the susceptible’, and by giving Tutti Fratelli vzw an prospect here, the mission of the Maagdenhuis is extended to the present working day.
Alderman for Society Nabilla Ait Daoud (N-VA): “We are breathing new everyday living into the Maagdenhuis and at the very same time we are cherishing its worthwhile record. The integration of socio-cultural companies this kind of as GATAM vzw and Tutti Fratelli vzw provides a present-day dimension to the historic importance of the Maagdenhuis, when treatment for the susceptible was central: Antwerp orphan girls as soon as learned family responsibilities listed here, these kinds of as cooking and sewing.”
Alderman for Social Affairs Tatjana Scheck (Vooruit): “The Maagdenhuis is the cradle of the Antwerp General public Centre for Social Welfare and of poverty reduction. With the rich social record in mind, it is critical that the Maagdenhuis continues to be an open up house. This new design and style assures that just about every Antwerp resident can also take a look at in this article in the long term.”
Sustainable future
For the very long-phrase vision for the Maagdenhuis, from 2027, the focus is on modern-day procedure with a sustainable long run, with the cultural and social tale of the Maagdenhuis web-site central.
Artwork and museums in Antwerp
- FOMU 2024 | Antwerp images museum ft. Dirk Braeckman, ‘RE/SISTERS’ and Nick Geboers.
- A pay a visit to of the Flemish Tram and Bus Museum – Vlaams Tram- en Autobusmuseum (VlaTAM) in Antwerp.
- MUSEUM AAN DE STROOM | ‘City at war, Antwerp 1940-1945’.
- ANTWERP | M HKA modern-day art museum offers first fifty percent of 2024 activities.
- ANTWERP | Finding queer(ed) art with the Queer Tour at the KMSKA fine arts museum.
- Assessment | Illusion Antwerpen, an active and photogenic museum.
- Antwerp museums and sporting activities services team up with European Disability Card for available leisure activities.
- ‘Jef Verheyen, Window On Infinity’ exhibition at KMSKA, the Royal Museum of Wonderful Arts Antwerp, right up until 18 August 2024.
- Inside of the KMSKA or Royal Museum of Great Arts Antwerp.
- Museum Mayer van den Bergh.
- 2024 at Royal Museum of Fantastic Arts of Antwerp (KMSKA): Rubens, James Ensor, Jules Schmalzigaug and many additional.
- 2024 at the museums of Antwerp ft. Ensor Yr.
- ANTWERP | Inside of Rubens Household.
- ModeMuseum MoMu – Style Museum Antwerp 2022.
- Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp.
- ANTWERP | Museum Vleeshuis up for restoration.
- Guide | ‘Antwerp. An Archaeological Perspective on the Origin of the City’ by Tim Bellens.
- Red Star Line Museum.
- Paleis op de Meir.
- DIVA, Antwerp Home of Diamonds.
- ANTWERP | Crimson Star Line Museum of (e)migration.
- ANTWERP | Museum Mayer van den Bergh is increasing into previous District Hall.