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Annemie Vanthienen

Annemie Vanthienen

Beringen, the coal port. Beringen Mining Museum

Faster to Limburg

Imagine this: you want to travel from Antwerp to Limburg, but the trip takes so long that you have to think it over carefully. Today, you just get in the car and you’re off. But more than a hundred years ago, Limburg was much harder to reach. Artists noticed that, too

3. Sampler by Pharailde Wymelbeke, 1891, Kortrijk, Texture, inv. 2012-002-537

Samplers and darning patches

A small piece of linen, filled to the brim with elegant letters, numbers, curls, and figures. Perhaps you’ve seen one hanging in a museum? Such a special piece of 19th-century practice textile is called a sampler. Schoolgirls used them to practice their sewing and embroidery techniques, building their skills step by step

Ship model in a bottle, depicting the collision of the “Titanic” with an iceberg, 1991. Collection of the City of Antwerp (MAS), AS.1991.033.001, photo: Bart Huysmans & Michel Wuyts

Mission Impossible? Ships in Bottles

You know the one: that cute little three-masted ship sitting proudly on your grandfather’s mantelpiece, or in the window of an old café. A tiny little ship, trapped inside a glass bottle. And every time, you find yourself thinking the same thing: how did they do that? It’s exactly that question that keeps people

Roman fresco of a woman with a stylus, 1st century. Wikimedia Commons (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli)

Searching for treasures from the distant past

Have you read the story about the Roman writing tablets from Tongeren? As many as 73 were found in the 1930s. More recently, in 2013, another 12 were unearthed in an old well. The texts seemed to be lost forever, until researchers took another close look at the tablets.

A trench overgrown with poppies in the Westhoek © FARO

In the Wake of the Great War

World War I may seem like a distant memory, but in the Westhoek, the past is never completely forgotten. You can still find trenches, bunkers, and cemeteries there. But traces of the war are also visible in the landscape. This summer, set out on your own discovery tour with the “ ErfgoedApp .” Hike