During a River Scheldt exhibition in 1925 several Antwerp citizens expressed a wish to see a permanent maritime museum in Antwerp. Their wish came true just two years later in 1927 when the Stedelijk Scheepvaartmuseum (Urban Maritime Museum) was set up in a wing of the Rijkshandelshogeschool (State Commercial College). In 1937 the collection was transferred to the Stedelijke Nijverheidsschool (Urban Technical School). When the Antwerp museums were reorganised in 1948, the Stedelijk Scheepvaartmuseum merged with the Oudheidkundige Musea (Museums of Antiquities) and the two maritime collections were combined.
Good picture, the bridge is really leading you into the castel and into the picture. I am wondering what was on the right though (kan het me niet herinneren, is te lang geleden dat ik daar nog geweest ben :-) ), maybe a different crop was better?
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