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The MAS is anything but a classic museum. The story of the MAS is aimed at every visitor. Here you'll find a summary of our activities.

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COMPASSION

The many faces of compassion
Individual visitors

Feeling or showing compassion is typically human and has many sides. The expo shows how we portray this in different times, cultures and worldviews. And also, what its abrasive sides are.

Friday 31 January 2025 until Sunday 31 August 2025 from 10:00 to 17:00

Stargazing on the roof

On Thursday evening during school holidays, you can come and gaze at the stars for free on the roof of the MAS. Observatory Urania will provide a telescope. Weather permitting ... 

Thursday 3 July 2025 from 21:00 to 23:00
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Thursday 10 July 2025 from 21:00 to 23:00
Thursday 17 July 2025 from 21:00 to 23:00
Thursday 24 July 2025 from 21:00 to 23:00
Thursday 31 July 2025 from 21:00 to 23:00
Thursday 7 August 2025 from 21:00 to 23:00
Thursday 14 August 2025 from 21:00 to 23:00
Thursday 21 August 2025 from 21:00 to 23:00
Thursday 28 August 2025 from 21:00 to 23:00
Persoon werkt aan kleurrijke muurschildering over queer verbondenheid

Compassion Can Save Queer Lives

(Interactive) Mural

Berlin based Alex Ottenwaelter creates a vibrant mural that shows queer power, joy and solidarity. The flexible design invites participation and dialogue, with workshops to celebrate visibility and connection in public spaces together.

Wednesday 6 August 2025 until Sunday 10 August 2025 from 10:00 to 17:00
Bezoeker bekijkt een video over non-binariteit

Nonbinary

Interactive presentation

Nonbinary is an audiovisual interactive exhibition that shows gender as a fluid spectrum, intertwined with culture and history. Through research, interviews and interactive maps, the expo reveals various often invisible nonbinary experiences worldwide, and challenges new understanding.

Wednesday 6 August 2025 until Sunday 10 August 2025 from 10:00 to 17:00
Detail van een geborduurd werkje binnen een collectief kunstproject

Our Exquisite Corpse

Interactive artwork – open participation

Waiting for transgender care sometimes takes years in the Netherlands and Belgium. OUR EXQUISITE CORPSE translates this endless wait into a participatory art project: a metre-long quilt in which everyone contributes minutes, together accounting for 1,314,900 minutes of waiting. Join the wait, give your time.

Wednesday 6 August 2025 from 18:00 to 22:00
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Thursday 7 August 2025 from 14:00 to 19:00
Close up van het Antwerp Queer Choir

queerPassion

Open rehearsal and panel discussion

At the end of August, the Antwerp Queer Choir will perform queerPassion at the Antwerp opera house. Curious for a preview? Come and listen to their open rehearsal at the MAS.

Wednesday 6 August 2025 from 19:00 to 21:00
Herhaalde afbeelding van zorgverlener met protestbord

Who Cares

Performance

Access to care remains a pain point for queers, especially trans people. Bert Roman approaches the issue from his experience as a queer nurse in the UK. He performs an abridged version of his performance Who Cares. 

Thursday 7 August 2025 from 17:00 to 17:30
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Thursday 7 August 2025 from 19:00 to 19:30
Bezoekers volgen panelgesprek in MASbox

Queer Care

Panel discussion

What does it feel like to wait endlessly for care you urgently need? MAS curator Marion Wasserbauer talks with artists The Pink Cube and Bert Roman about the impact of waiting times in transgender healthcare.

Thursday 7 August 2025 from 19:30 to 21:00
Persoon in dierlijke houding weerspiegeld in een spiegel

Interview with a Notorious Wild Cat

Video + Performance

Interview with a Notorious Wild Cat (2021) is a video installation about a hybrid being — part human, part lynx. It explores the experience of living in a changing body: feminine, seductive, strange. A source of both pride and shame — something that cannot be fully understood or defined.

Friday 8 August 2025 from 14:00 to 18:45
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Friday 8 August 2025 from 19:15 to 19:30
Bezoeker volgen panelgesprek in MASbox

Breaking the Binary

Panel discussion

MAS curator Selm Merel Wenselaers engages in conversation with artists masharu and Tristan Elísabet Birta. Together, they explore how gender equality can be more than a superficial debate, delving into the societal, cultural and personal dimensions at play.

Friday 8 August 2025 from 19:30 to 20:45

Universal Tongue

Individual visitors

Anouk Kruithof shows that dance is a universal language in different (sub)cultures. Walk through a rousing video installation featuring some 1,000 dance styles from around the world. Immerse yourself in a language we all know in this four-hour film. 

Friday 24 October 2025 until Sunday 4 January 2026 from 10:00 to 17:00

Martial Arts

Individual visitors

A new expo that immerses you in the rich world of martial arts. Antwerp has a very rich history of martial arts that still evolves with the city today. Together with Sporting A, ErfgoedLab delved into the Antwerp world of martial arts and collected many personal stories and objects.

Saturday 4 April 2026 until Sunday 8 November 2026 from 10:00 to 17:00

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