What if you could spend the night at KMSKA?

Et si, au lieu de parcourir un musée à toute vitesse, vous y passiez la nuit ?

Museums are usually places you visit for an hour or two. You walk through the galleries, stop in front of the works that catch your eye and eventually head home. But what happens when the doors close and you get to stay?

During the weekend of 24 and 25 October, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) will open its doors for a very special overnight experience. Fifty people will get the chance to spend the night inside the museum, surrounded by centuries of art, after the last visitors have left and the building has fallen quiet.

It is a rather extraordinary way to experience a museum. The familiar galleries look different when you are there after hours, with no crowds, no rush and nowhere else you need to be. You can take your time, look longer and simply experience the museum at a different pace.

The overnight stay is part of Slow Up for Humanity, a weekend dedicated to questioning our relationship with time, speed and the constant pressure to keep going. But the KMSKA experience is really about something very simple: having the rare opportunity to spend a night somewhere that is normally only open during the day.

And there is more to discover. During the weekend, KMSKA will also offer a Slow Art Tour, inviting visitors to spend more time with fewer artworks and discover what becomes visible when we stop rushing from one room to the next. KMSKA’s Radio Bart also explores the connection between art, silence and attentive looking.

Want to sleep at the museum?

The 50 places for the overnight stay will be given away through a lottery at the beginning of October. If you would like to know when the giveaway opens and how to enter, the best thing to do is sign up via our homepage. We’ll share all the details there as soon as they are available.

One night. Fifty people. A museum after dark.

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