Antwerp harbor view and ship models by Robert Mols
The Antwerp port employers' organization CEPA announced a structural collaboration with the Friends of the New Maritime Museum with an exhibition about Robert Mols. A detailed view of Antwerp harbor and ship models attributed to Mols were the highlights of the MAS collection. This was the first exhibition after Mols' death that was entirely devoted to his oeuvre. The exhibition ran until the end of December 2025 in CEPA's Anker Room.
Enchanted by gold
The exhibition ‘Enchanted by gold’ ran from December 21, 2024, to October 26, 2025, at the Wereldmuseum in Leiden. The MAS loaned eight gold objects, all from the Paul & Dora Janssen-Arts collection. The exhibition highlighted the role of gold in various cultures around the world.
Vinland Saga
The MAS loaned several objects from the Hasse archaeological collection and the maritime collection for the Vinland Saga exhibition in Manderen-Ritzing (France). This exhibition brought together contemporary manga with historical pieces from various collections. The exhibition ran from April 5 to October 31, 2025.
Fêtes & célébrations flamandes at Lille, France
Until 1667, the northern French city of Lille belonged to the Southern Netherlands. This connection with the Netherlands was highlighted in the exhibition Fêtes & célébrations flamandes. Brueghel, Rubens, Jordaens at the Palais des Beaux-Arts. The MAS loaned several important pieces about the Antwerp Ommegang and the painting De Spaanse Furie (The Spanish Fury) for this exhibition. The exhibition closed its doors on September 1, 2025.
The conversion of Saul to musuem Krona (Netherlands)
The masterpiece “The Conversion of Saul (Paul) on the Road to Damascus,” a multicolored tile panel from 1547, was temporarily on display in the Netherlands. Until March 16, 2025, it was part of the exhibition 'Uit het Paradijs' ('Out of Paradise') at the museum Krona in Uden.
Sarvavid in the Rubin Museum of Art
The MAS preserves a unique series of paintings depicting meditation, step by step, on the Sarvavid Vairocana mandala (AE.1977.0026). Sarvavid is the most important of the five 'Dhyani Buddhas' or meditative Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism. Nine paintings from the Sarvavid series - which has 54 miniatures - were on display at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York from 17 March 2023 to 14 January 2024.
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Egyptian antiquities to Waterloo
A small selection of cultural artefacts from Egyptian antiquity found its temporary home at the Wellington Museum in Waterloo. A temporary exhibition showed what influence the land of the pharaohs had for centuries on the European public and on Napoleon Bonaparte. The MAS lent ten objects for this expo. They were on display there from June 2023 to January 2024.
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Sacred monsters to Treignes
The MAS lent nine objects from its 'Egyptian antiquities' collection for the temporary exhibition 'Monstres sacrés. Les hybrides de la Préhistoire à l'Antiquité' at the Musée du Malgré-Tout. This expo presented hybrid cultural objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Near East, Egypt, Rome, Greece and the Celtic world. The objects were exhibited there from 21 May to 13 November 2022.
African masterpieces to America
MAS loaned eight extraordinary African cultural objects for 'The Language of Beauty in African Art', an exhibition to be visited first in Texas (03.04 - 31.07.2022) and then in Chicago (20.11.2022 - 27.02.2023). The exhibition presented more than two hundred African masks, sculptures and prestige objects. The loans came from European and US public and private collections.
Pre-Columbian art to Mons
A major exhibition dedicated to Colombian artist Fernando Botero opened at the Beaux-Arts Museum in Mons on 9 October 2021. Pre-Columbian art is a major influence in his early work, especially pre-Hispanic pottery and sculpture from Colombia. For this expo, we lent 3 objects.
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer to the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen
The prestigious exhibition 'Dürer was here. A journey becomes legend' followed the route Dürer took on his journey to the Netherlands. The expo showed works he himself made along the way, works by followers and works made later about the journey. We lent a sandstone bust for the exhibition, which ran until 24 October 2021.
Scaldis and Antverpia to Paderborn
From 24 July to 25 October 2020, the Diözesanmuseum Paderborn exhibited the 2 busts of the river god Scaldis and city virgin Antverpia from the MAS collection for the exhibition 'Peter Paul Rubens und der Barock im Norden'. The 2 busts are personifications representing the inseparable connection between the city of Antwerp and the river Scheldt.
