Floor plan
You will receive a floor plan at the museum reception desk. The plan will take you round the museum’s high points in an hour.
Museum guide
Would you like to take a little longer? Then borrow a free visitors’ guide from the bookcase in the corridor. You won’t be overwhelmed by texts, labels and captions in the museum. Eager for more? If so, the visitors’ guide is definitely worth reading.
After you’ve finished using it, put the book back on the bookcase for the next visitor. You will also find all the texts here.
Audio Play and audio guide
Audio Play
New three-dimensional audio techniques are used to make you feel like a time traveller entering a busy house and printing works. The audio play is not a classic audio tour, but brings the rooms and their former occupants to life in an amusing way.
Audio guide
Interested in the story of the founder Christoffel Plantin and his successors, the Moretus family? Listen to the tour Plantin visionary publisher in the Antwerp Museum App.
- The audio play en audio guide are part of the Antwerp Museum App, which is crammed full with exclusive information and interesting tours of Antwerp and its museums.
- Download the Antwerp Museum App onto your smartphone (Android or iOS) and bring your own earphones or buy a set from the museum reception desk for 1 euro.
- No smartphone or you don't want to download the app? No worries. For 2 euros you can rent a device with headphones at the desk.
Family game
On a trip with the kids? Ask at the desk for the free family game De Dappere drukker. It’s a fun way for children to discover the house and its occupants and staff. (available in Dutch only)
And there's more
Browse through replicas of famous Plantin editions, dress up in contemporary costume or take a selfie sitting behind the counter of the old shop.
Guided tour
A guide takes you round the house and the printing works and tells you all about the Plantin-Moretus family and activities in the print shop, office and house. Find out all about this intriguing family business of the past.
Book your guide at least three weeks in advance from Visit Antwerpen
- + 32 3 232 01 03 (available Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm)
- tickets@visitantwerpen.be
