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Middelheim App

For all ages

Discover art works from the museum collection with an app on your smartphone or tablet. The Middelheim app is loaded with exclusive content.

About the app

Highlights tour

The highlights tour guides you from one masterpiece to another. 77 works in total. A map with GPS function ensures that you’ll find your way through the art park flawlessly.

The tour is richly supplied with text, photo, audio and video. You will learn more about the construction of the art works and problems concerning their preservation. Listen to stories of Flemish youth authors and well known people about their favorite sculpture. Artists reveal their deepest secrets about their work, young people present their idiosyncratic interpretations. And of course you will learn interesting things about the history of the museum.

Eight routes

You can also choose a theme and dig deeper into a topic that interests you. We have mapped out eight routes for you.

  • Middelheim
    ​The history of a museum without a roof
     
  • 30’ – At a glance
    A quick look at 11 sculptures
     
  • Radio Woordenwoud (in Dutch)
    Stories about heroes and bad luck, for big and small children.
     
  • Sculpturized!
    Mix your media, an interpretation by young talent
     
  • Sculptures by Belgians
    This is Belgian
     
  • Artist talk
    Artists about their work
     
  • Under construction
    What preceded...
     
  • Fatal attraction
    Seductive sculptures: artists & experts talking about their favorites. 

 

Practical

Middelheim App

  • Information on 73 works of art from the museum collection
  • Free | For Android and iOS | For smartphone and tablet
  • Available in Dutch, Frenck and English
  • Free WIFI in the art park

  

 

Comments or suggestions?

Send an email to greet.stappaerts@antwerpen.be.

 

The Middelheim app is a project of the public activities department of the Middelheim Museum. Concept and realization: Bart Rooms, Joanna Smits, Greet Stappaerts. Content: Joanna Smits.

Thanks to Mario De Munck, CAHF, Digipolis and the management and staff of the Middelheim Museum. With the support of the Flemish government and Tourism Flanders. Made by BAGAAR.