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Antwerp, The National Maritime Museum
http://museum.antwerpen.be/scheepvaartmuseum/


The National Maritime Museum is the only
general maritime museum in Belgium. It boasts a collection of around 100,000 items, ranging from a uniform button... to actual boats. The maritime history of our regions (Belgium, Northern France,
and the Netherlands) is central in the museum's collection policy. The maritime park, next to the museum building, displays actual ships and archaeological findings.
A number of important items from the collection: Inland navigation, fishing, the history of Belgian training ships, the "Belgica" expedition to
Antarctica (1897-1899), Shipbuilding, yachting,
Red Star Line,…

National Maritime Museum
Steenplein 1
B-2000 Antwerp
Tel. +32 (0)3 201 93 40
Fax +32 (0)3 201 93 41
e-mail: scheepmus@stad.antwerpen.be

website: http://museum.antwerpen.be/scheepvaartmuseum/


How to get to the museum?
By car: direction of centre, follow Schelde
By train: Antwerp central station
By bus: 6, 18, 25, 26, 34
Difficult access via the "Leien": http://www.deleien.be

Opening hours
Museum: from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Lightship "West-Hinder" (Bonaparte dock): from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Maritime park (next to the museum): from Easter
to the end of October from 10 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Museum library: to visit the reading room, please make an appointment (by telephone)

Closed
Mondays (except for Easter Monday and Whit Monday), 1-2 January, 1 May , Ascension, 1-2 November, 25-26 December

Entrance fees
Individual: € 4,00
Groups, + 3 pass, CJP, students, unemployed: € 2,00
Schools, -12 year, society of friends Antwerp municipal museums, residents of Antwerp: free of charge

Guided tours
Dienst voor Toerisme (Tourist office), Grote Markt 15 - 2000 Antwerp
Tel. 03 203 95 30