Sunday 12 July is Family Day at Muhka, with activities around looking, moving, textiles and making together.
Children and their accompanying adults can spend the day exploring the museum. There are activities for different ages, from a toddler tour and family tours to workshops, sewing sessions, a screen-printing pop-up and ongoing activities in The Salon. Waffles will be available in MuhkaFE.
Family Day is accessible with a valid museum ticket. Children up to and including 17 years old visit the museum free of charge. On Family Day, adults pay the reduced rate of €8. Other discounts remain valid. Advance booking is required for the toddler tour and workshops.
Programme
You can explore freely, join a guided tour or book a workshop. Some activities have limited capacity.
Toddler tour – M HKADEE (ages 2–4)
11:15–12:15 | Booking required
Starts at the front desk. The tour then continues in the exhibitions.
In this sensory tour, young children and their accompanying adults are introduced to the exhibition by feeling, looking or listening. You discover how Nicola’s textile works are not only made to be looked at, but above all to be experienced. The tour is adapted to the pace and world of toddlers, and offers a first playful introduction to art in the museum.
Family tour (6+)
13:30–14:30 and 15:30–16:30 | No booking required
Starts at the front desk. The tour then continues in the exhibitions.
Travel through the life and work of Nicola L. – from Paris and Ibiza to Brussels and New York. For Nicola, art was part of life: her artworks stood in the living room as if they were furniture, or you could ‘wear’ them and bring them to life through your body.
During this family tour, you explore Nicola’s ideas about equality and freedom together with a guide. You also discover her humour and playfulness, and how her textile works are not only made to be looked at, but above all to be experienced. Crawl into one work together, move as one body with a real ‘shared skin’.
Workshop Atelier Tastbaar (ages 4–9)
13:30–14:30 and 15:30–16:30 | Booking required
Location: sixth floor.
Take part as a duo: child with accompanying adult.
This workshop is open to everyone, with or without disabilities. Wear clothes in which you feel comfortable moving freely.
Moving together brings people closer to each other. It sounds logical, doesn’t it? Three dancers and musicians welcome you into their atelier. They show movements, and how you can weave them together into a tangible moment. Like a warm embrace, connecting you with each other.
t a s t b a a r wants to bring art close to people, including in places where it does not naturally reach. Dance artist Caroline D’Haese and musician and singer Joey Brocken create tailor-made artistic rituals, for many kinds of loneliness. To do so, they work with other artists and partners from the care and cultural sectors who inspire them.
Help sew a large quilt (6+)
11:00–12:30 | Booking required
Starts at the front desk. The session then continues in the space in front of CKV, where participants can join freely.
The session is guided by artist Lize Maekelberg. No sewing experience is required. The session is intended for children. Parents and accompanying adults can briefly look in at the start and then explore the museum or MuhkaFE themselves.
A quilt is a thick, layered blanket sewn by hand from pieces of fabric. No two quilts are the same: every piece of cloth, every stitch, every choice of colour and pattern tells something about the hands that made it. Quilts have been made for centuries in families and communities: as gifts, as memories, as acts of togetherness.
During this session, you sew a piece of fabric for a large collective quilt. We use weeds as a motif: wild plants that grow where they are not expected, outside the categories people have created for them. Just as people do not always fit into the boxes created for them. You can also add a written message with your piece of fabric. Every piece of fabric will really become part of the quilt, which will then travel further.
A collaboration with Antwerp Queer Arts Festival. The quilt is part of WOEKER, a festival on gender diversity taking place in November 2026 in Antwerp, Ghent and Leuven.
Screen-printing pop-up – Jean Katambayi Mukendi
13:00–15:30 | Ongoing, drop in freely
Location: ground floor, in the space in front of CKV.
Bring your own piece of textile and print an image by Jean Katambayi Mukendi on it, or screen-print on a blank sketchbook. This gives an existing piece of fabric a new layer. Use your sketchbook during your visit to turn observations into sketches and diagrams.
In collaboration with screen-printing studio Rombus.
The Salon
11:00–17:00 | Ongoing, drop in freely
Location: first floor.
Move together in a raincoat for four people in the spirit of Nicola L. Make a collage starting from the silhouette of your own face. Or take inspiration from philosophical questions. In the museum, The Salon is the place where you can freely inquire, feel and imagine.
Practical info
Date: Sunday 12 July
Time: 11:00–17:00
Location: Muhka, Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp
For whom: families, children and accompanying adults. The age range differs per activity.
Tickets: Family Day is accessible with a valid museum ticket. Children up to and including 17 years old visit the museum free of charge. On Family Day, adults pay the reduced rate of €8. Other discounts remain valid.
Booking: Toddler tour – M HKADEE, Workshop Atelier Tastbaar and Help sew a large quilt require advance booking. The family tours, The Salon and the screen-printing pop-up do not require booking.
