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The centre of Antwerp is not very big, and once you cross the ring road, you will mainly see suburbs. There are some nice parks outside the ring road: the Middelheim Park in Wilrijk is one of them. It houses a permanent open-air exhibition of modern sculpture, including work by famous artists such as Rodin, Hans Arp, Henry Moore, and many others.
Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum is a sculpture park of 24 hectares in the park part of the Middelheim Nachtegalen Park at Antwerp. The Middelheim Museum collection has approximately 400 works of art on display. These include around 215 sculptures, featuring artists such as Carl Andre, Franz West, Auguste Rodin and many more. Along with the addition of new works every year, the museum invites contemporary artists to engage in an artistic conversation with works part of the permanent collection and the environment surrounding them, leading to the establishment of performances and exhibitions and by various kinds of artists. Works such as ones by Roman Signer and Ai Weiwei are also created specifically for the museum.
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Designed by Le Corbusier in 1926, this is one of 17 of his creations worldwide to be inscribed as a .
Flemish Tram and Bus Museum
The museum is supported by the Flemish transport company De Lijn, and is located within a former tram depot. Its collection includes Antwerp's first electric tram, an open tram, a steam-operated tram and the Gyrobus (an electric bus built in 1956).
A little off the beaten track. This neighbourhood in the south east of Antwerp (near the railway station Antwerpen-Berchem, look for 'Cogels-Osylei' on the map) is known for its eclectic, sometimes rather bizarre 19th-century architecture. Consider taking a tram or bicycle to get there.
Justitiepaleis
There are actually two of these. The old one is a 19th-century red brick building on the Britselei. The new one is a dominant, modern, white building in the south of Antwerp (Bolivarplaats). You can hardly miss it once you're there. The architect of this building was Richard Rogers, who also built the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Millennium Dome in London.