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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Antwerp

16 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Antwerp, Belgium

Updated January 28, 2022

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Unusual Attractions in Antwerp

Wooden escalators, can't slide down the middle.

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St. Anna's Tunnel

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

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Cafe Beveren

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.
The Little Boat in Antwerp.

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Het Bootje (The Little Boat)

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.
The Antwerp Ruien

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Antwerp Ruien

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

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Plantin-Moretus Museum of Printing

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.
The Nello and Patrasche sculpture in Handschoenmarkt.

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Nello and Patrasche

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

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Kulminator

To enter this cluttered-yet-cozy sanctum of Belgian brews, ring the bell and tell the gatekeepers you've come “to taste beer.”
Brabo Fountain.

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Brabo Fountain

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.
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Cafe Beveren

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

Antwerp, Belgium

Kulminator

To enter this cluttered-yet-cozy sanctum of Belgian brews, ring the bell and tell the gatekeepers you've come “to taste beer.”

Antwerp, Belgium

Elfde Gebod

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.
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Stories About Antwerp

Is This $88 Portrait the Work of a 17th-Century Flemish Master?

Science and historical research say….maybe.
by Sarah Durn
January 28, 2022
It's a shame we don't yet have the technology to digitize the Library's famous Nottebohm Room.

The Ambitious Plan to Digitize 100,000 Historic Texts in Belgium

Two major Antwerp institutions are putting some of their voluminous holdings in the cloud.
by Matthew Taub
April 7, 2020

The Best 18th-Century Toilets Were Designed to Look Like Books

This shit is lit.
by Jessica Leigh Hester
January 9, 2020

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