In the spring and summer of 2021, we will be going on a journey. Plantin travelled a lot, but never for his own leisure. It was always business first. We will head off on business trips to Leiden, Paris and Frankfurt.
The woodcuts collection of the Plantin-Moretus Museum is a true source of inspiration. Shops and the catering industry nearby the museum highlight this impressive collection. Literally then. Discover a strong sample of illustrations on display at their shop windows.
The City of Antwerp and Google signed an agreement to digitise a large portion of the collections of the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Plantin-Moretus Museum. This entails more than 100,000 works from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century that will be made freely accessible in the coming years via Google Books and the library catalogues of both institutions. The books to be scanned are no longer subject to copyright.
For a calligraphy performance by Brody Neuenschwander
On Sunday, 25 October 2020, the national ‘Day of Silence’, the Museum Plantin-Moretus will host an entrancing event called "A Brush with Silence" with artist Brody Neuenschwander.
10 video's about unique drawings of the 17th century
Curator Virginie D'haene will guide you through the exhibition 'Drawn to perfection', along the most spectacular 17th-century drawings from our collection.
Anthony Van Dyck copies a painting by the important Venetian Renaissance painter Titian. Copying artworks is something all artists do. Even the greatest.
In this drawing we see Rubens's creative genius in action. In deze tekening zien we Rubens' creatieve genie volop in actie. He was inspired by existing models, but at the same time you see him searching for the ideal depiction of the wrestling match.
