Current Exhibitions
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Temporary ExhibitionAn exhibition about courage, romance, love and resilience. And also about pain and struggling. About starting a new life abroad in order to be with the one you love. On display from 25/09/2020.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
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Temporary ExhibitionIn our city there are young people who can bear witness to war, hunger and dictatorships. Newcomers, who 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. -
Temporary exhibition23.04.2019 - 6.10.2019The presentation followed in the footsteps of the root seekers and moved through the emotions behind a family or migration history. -
Temporary ExhibitionA captivating photo exhibition by Carl De KeyzerFrom 31 October 2018 until 27 January 2019, the Red Star Line Museum hosted the exhibition 'Higher Ground' by the Belgian MAGNUM photographer Carl De Keyzer.
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Temporary exhibitionSix Argentinians about their rootsThis 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? -
Temporary exhibitionWhen 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 exhibitionSee the world with the Red Star LineSince 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.
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Temporary exhibition27 May 2016 - 4 September 2016 from 09:30 to 17:00The 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 exhibition28 April 2016 - 28 August 2016 from 10:00 to 17:00Since 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. -
Temporary exhibition25 September 2015 - 10 April 2016 from 10:00 to 17:00Starting 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.
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Belgian immigrants in America in World War IDiscover the fascinating stories of Belgians in the United States in World War I . -
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. -
An exhibition on travel and coming home commemorates 50 years of migration from Morocco and Turkey to Belgium.