This year I visited Berlin for the third time. Berlin is like Madrid one of my favorite cities in Europe. This third time around it took a bit more time to prepare an itinerary. We had visited all the usual suspects on our previous visits and it was the middle of winter, so I had … Lees verder
The 850 year old Saint Johns hospital is a great museum with beautiful works of our Flemish master Hans Memling as a real draw. Visitors can see a great body of work from world renowned artists and also visit a great piece of Belgium heritage holding beautiful medieval art. The hospital was founded in the … Lees verder
And that is exactly what the Judische Museum in Berlin built by Daniel Libeskind does. The large grey building, made out of concrete and clad in zinc sheeting, commemorates the numerous lives lost in the holocaust. ‘How long would it take to recite the names of the 6 million people that died?’ was a question … Lees verder
Moscow boasts many museums worth visiting, so best make a choice because you won’t be able to visit them all! Before leaving on my trip to Moscow I tried to make a choice between the Pushkin State museum of Fine Arts and the State Tretyakov Gallery. Both musea have more than one building and both … Lees verder
Every few months we make a trip to Brussels. There is often an exhibition I do not want to miss, and in May I come for the Queen Elisabeth competition, the world famous classical music competition. We usually combine it with some shopping and a meal at a good restaurant. So after all these years … Lees verder
Authentic Bruges. Since April 2016, Bruges is a brewery richer. We used to have only one inner city brewery: Halve Maan, located close to the beautiful beguinage in Bruges. Here they brew the popular beer “Brugse Zot”. Brugse Zot means Fool from Bruges, a historic nickname the people from Bruges carry with pride. Ten years … Lees verder
It took us many trips to Paris before visiting The Louvre. We had both visited the Louvre already more than twenty years ago, so memories of it were getting faint. On previous visits the lines in front of the Louvre did not really invite us, and there were always so many other places we hadn’t … Lees verder
Volgens mijn zoon had ik antropologie moeten studeren. Ik hou ervan mensen te bestuderen en ik verkondig dan ook te pas en te onpas mijn mening over de mensheid rond mij. Mijn echtgenoot verwondert zich nog elke dag over de inzichten die ik ontleen aan de kledingstijl of gespreksonderwerpen van mijn medemensen. Het is een … Lees verder
We hadden een dagje Antwerpen gepland, en naast een reeds geboekte voorstelling ’s avonds leek ons een museumbezoek een waardevolle aanvulling van de dag. Er is sinds iets minder dan een jaar een gloednieuw museum in Antwerpen op het eilandje, vlakbij dat andere nieuwe museum het MAS. Het Red Star Line museum is gehuisvest in de … Lees verder
le musee du Quai Branly in Parijs Een museum met antropologische tentoonstellingen, die andere en internationale culturen belicht en uitdiept, een geografische reis doorheen de verschillende delen en hoeken van onze wereld. Het stond al een tijdje op ons to-do lijstje in Parijs, en na ons bezoek aan Monumenta in le Grand Palais, lag dit … Lees verder
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