FOMU - Photo Museum Antwerp (with baby)

If “horrible” was a museum, this would be its dictionary entry. Only second floor is operational. That means three rooms altogether, combining historical photographs with talentless Flemish photographers who try to be original by making a narrative series on something groundbreaking such as… feminism. Come only if you need to take a quick nap as there is a sleeping area on the third floor.

Excellent museum with a fab reading library that had lots of books I'd never seen before - I spent more time in the library that some of the exhibits (which were also excellent). Cafe is also really nice.

There are sometimes excellent exhibitions. The museum has a good shop. Tickets can be purchased on-site.

Absolutely not worth the €12 admission price. To be honest, the exhibits were barely worth charging for: I've seen plenty of similar standard stuff in other European cities for free. I filled my time (and salvaged some value) there by browsing some books (by far better photographers) in their library. And ordered one of them off eBay.

We visited the photo museum for two hours and were quite blown away by the quality and content! Not sure what would meet us, camera or techniques or exhibitions of photos, this is definitely the latter one. There are currently three parts: the permanent exhibit, one on (famously) war photographer Lee Miller and at the top - an amazing live performance about the changes in Iran the last 50 years an...