ABSTRACT
The Museum aan de Stroom is dedicated to telling the story of the city’s history,
using both historical objects and its extensive art collection. For centuries, Antwerp
has been a place of meeting, encounter, and exchange. The museum takes up
traces of those exchanges and uses them to tell new stories. At the Museum aan
de Stroom, objects, people, and stories form a triangle foundation for the displays;
thus the museum is not just about the objects but about the stories they tell, and
art is appreciated not only for esthetic purposes but also for how it fits into the
history of the port city. The collection consists of 470,000 very diverse objects,
including mummies, ship pieces, and art from Africa, Asia, and pre-Columbian
South America.
