Current Exhibitions

Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Temporary exhibition

    A little bit Belgian

    Six Argentinians about their roots
    This autumn the Red Star Line Museum tells a story about roots, recollections and Belgian migration to Argentina based on the individual stories of six Argentinians. What do they still know about their family history? How do they keep the memories of Belgium, of themselves or of their ancestors alive?

Past Exhibitions

  • Temporary exhibition

    Breeze 2017- Róza El-Hassan

    When does a house become a home?
    This spring, the Red Star Line Museum welcomed the Hungarian-Syrian artist Róza El-Hassan with her art installation Breeze 2017. She has built a dome in the museum with which she reflects on the meaning of ‘migration, coming home and belonging”.
  • Temporary exhibition

    Cruise Away

    See the world with the Red Star Line
    Since the autumn of 2016, the Red Star Line Museum has been drawing attention to one of the Red Star shipping line’s lesser known activities: its cruise activity. The museum will bring the cruise era back to life with an exhibition, a book and a concert by the Flat Earth Society. The emphasis is on the stories of the passengers and crews of the Red Star Line's cruise ships. The exhibition includes an original film shot by an amateur filmmaker during his cruise on the Belgenland between 1927 and 1928.
  • Temporary exhibition

    Exhibition: Via Antwerp. The Road to Ellis Island

    27 May 2016 - 4 September 2016 from 09:30 to 17:00
    The expo will be on display at Ellis Island, New York during the summer of 2016. The exhibition recounts the stories of passengers who underwent examinations in Rijnkaai and in the Great Hall in Ellis Island. It also examines the role the Red Star Line played in the lives of such famous passengers as Albert Einstein and Irving Berlin.
  • Temporary exhibition

    Ali’s boat

    28 April 2016 - 28 August 2016 from 10:00 to 17:00
    Since April 28, 2016, the Red Star Line Museum has been presenting "Ali's Boat", the work of Iraqi-Dutch artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji. "Ali's Boat" is the artist's personal and contemporary interpretation of the museum's central theme, namely the dream of millions of people to build a new life elsewhere.
  • Foto: Jan Yoors © Jan Yoors partnership, courtesy Gallery FIFTY ONE
    Temporary exhibition

    I, gypsy. The voyages of Jan Yoors.

    25 September 2015 - 10 April 2016 from 10:00 to 17:00
    Starting from the 25th of September, the Red Star Line Museum will be holding a photo exhibition in The Shed with a selection of photos and films of the versatile Antwerp-New York artist Jan Yoors. For this exhibition, photographer Koen Broos selected photos of Yoor’s travels with the Roma gypsies in the 1930s, of ethnic communities in New York in the 1950s and photos of his trips back to Belgium to (re)visit the gypsies.

  • Far from the War?

    Belgian immigrants in America in World War I
    Discover the fascinating stories of Belgians in the United States in World War I .

  • Gaiska

    From 19 March until 4 May the Red Star Line Museum will exhibit the monumental works of the Venezuelan-Hungarian artist Gaiska. Gaiska is a painter who lives and works in Antwerp. This show will contain a series of paintings that were inspired by the historic pictorial material of the Red Star Line.

  • Home Sweet Home

    An exhibition on travel and coming home commemorates 50 years of migration from Morocco and Turkey to Belgium.