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EXHIBITIONS

General information

Location

MAS | Museum Aan de Stroom
Hanzestedenplaats 1
2000 Antwerp

Opening hours

Days	Opening hours
TU - SU	10am - 5pm
THU	10am - 9pm

Closed on Mondays (but not on Easter Monday or Whit Monday), January 1, May 1, Ascension day (May 17, 2012), November 1 and 2 and December 25.

Admission fees

Fees	Target group
€ 8	General fee Inhabitants of Antwerp with an A-card
€ 6	65+ Groups (of 12 persons or more)
€ 1	12 - 26
€ 0	-12 City guides ICOM Teachers School groups Friends of the municipal museums of Antwerp Every last Wednesday of the month

For advance sales there is an administration cost of € 2 per order. A ticket allows you to visit the exhibition Masterpieces in MAS. Combi-tickets to visit other exhibitions or the museum’s permanent collection are also available.

Guided tours

For groups

Maximum 20 participants
Price: € 65 (+ admission fee)
Duration: one hour and a half

An administration cost of € 5 will be charged for buying the tickets in advance and booking the guide.

Bookings

Antwerpen Toerisme & Congres
T +32 (0)3 232 01 03
F +32 (0)3 338 95 91

Masterpieces in the MAS. Five centuries of images in Antwerp

Advertising poster Masterpieces in the MAS (click to enlarge; use the escape key to close the window)

Date 17/05/2011 - 30/12/2012

Masterpieces in the MAS. Five centuries of images in Antwerp is the first temporary exhibition of the new Museum aan de Stroom.

The prestigious exhibition confronts the works of old masters with those of contemporary artists. It shows how Antwerp and Flanders have significantly influenced sixteenth and seventeenth-century Western European imagery. The region is also a cradle of today’s visual culture. For this exhibition MAS will collaborate with the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA), M HKA and Museum Plantin-Moretus/Prints Room. These museums will all supply masterpieces from their collection. The works tell a tale of visual art in Antwerp, about the origin of a flourishing art market, the role of the port in the dissemination and multiplication of images all over the world and the return of contemporary artists to the essence of the image.

A story of the image

This exhibition is based on A Story of the Image. Old and New Masters from Antwerp which was organised last year in Shanghai and Singapore. The theme will be elaborated upon in the MAS exhibition. Valuable masterpieces that were too fragile to be transported to Asia last year, will be included in this exhibition.

Masterpieces in the MAS. Five centuries of Images in Antwerp is the opening exhibition of the Museum aan de Stroom and a collaboration between M HKA, Museum Plantin-Moretus/Print Room and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.