This Sunday, Heritage Day offers more than 900 free activities throughout Flanders and Brussels exploring the meaning of home
Heritage Day takes place on 21 April from 10.00 to 18.00. FARO, the Flemish support centre for cultural heritage, has organized this edition focusing on the theme of Home. The event asks what exactly home is and was.
“Home is a theme that the hundreds of enthusiastic Heritage Day organisers can take in all directions. It captures the imagination, both in its everydayness and in its uniqueness. The programme is bursting with creative, playful and heartwarming activities,” said Olga Van Oost, director general of FARO.
There will be countless opportunities to get to know different Flemish cities and municipalities by viewing their archives, craftmanship workshops, libraries, museums, theatres, and much more.
In Ghent, the exhibition The Room of Franske at the Guislain Museum explores the concept of home inside and outside the walls of psychiatry. Leuven offers a tour past notorious former squatted buildings that were the city’s hotbeds of activism and counter-culture.
The work of photographer Koen Degroote, who travelled along the E17 motorway to capture the lives of truck drivers, is on display at the Van der Valk restaurant and hotel in Nazareth. At the Abbey of Sint-Truiden, you can see and hear the memories of the first wave of migrants in the fruit sector in and around the city.
Many places that are normally closed to the public will open their doors, making Heritage Day an excellent opportunity to see inside the buildings that make up Flanders. The full programme and an interactive map of activities can be found at www.erfgoeddag.be or on the Heritage App.
