In 2025, we’re highlighting these multifaceted women in various ways. At seven locations throughout the museum, you’ll meet daughters, mothers, housewives, maids, and business leaders — all telling their stories in their own words. And we won’t be doing it alone: fashion designer Tim Van Steenbergen and the REantwerp atelier, writer Aya Sabi, Dutch language learners from the Encora reading club, and storyteller Sven Speybrouck all contribute.
Fortunately, we don’t have to make these stories up. The Museum Plantin-Moretus holds over 200 metres of archival material — thousands of sheets of paper: letters, notes, diaries, account books, ledgers, and administration. And within all that, we find countless traces of the women who lived and worked here over the centuries.
Discover it all during a fascinating guided tour. Men are welcome too.
In which languages is this activity/tour/event available?
Dutch, German, English, French
Practical information
• This guided tour is suitable for groups of adults
• Maximum 15 persons per group
• Duration: 90 minutes
• Guide fee: €120 (administration costs included)
• Museum entry tickets must be purchased separately (see rates) and are valid all day
