MAS - Museum aan de Stroom

The MAS Museum is also known as the Water Museum or the Riverside Museum because it is located on the bank of the Scheldt. It connects the city and the port in the canal, symbolizing the connection between the city and the world. Appearance inspiration It was once rated as one of the 20 museums in the world. It was designed by the Dutch Nutrins Redek Architecture Office. It was inspired by the warehouse Hanzehuis in the 16th century. The whole building seems to be a square The "boxes" are piled up, and the spiral staircase rotates up around these "boxes", providing visitors with a new perspective on the city and the port. The red stone on the exterior wall of the museum comes from India, the arc-cut glass curtain window is 6 meters high, and the three thousand aluminum hand-shaped patterns embedded in the red stone make this "red tower" glow in the sun. The museum is 60 meters high, and if you climb to the top, you can overlook the beautiful scenery of the whole city. The museum has ten floors and houses more than 370,000 collections: the first floor is the office area, the second floor is mainly for the visual storage and exhibition area to display the collection and its history, the third floor is the temporary exhibition space, and the fourth and fifth floors are the world In the cultural exchange theme exhibition area, the sixth floor is the world port city maritime exhibition area, the seventh and eighth floors are the life and death theme exhibition area, the ninth floor is the restaurant and reception room, and the tenth floor is the terrace viewing area. Part of the museum's collection comes from the Belgian National Maritime Museum, the Ethnographic Museum and the Folklore Museum.