Images of a changing city: photographs of Antwerp from the 1860’s

In 1860, photographer Edmond Fierlants (1819-1869) was given the task of documenting the historical monuments of the city. It was one of the first large-scale series of urban photography in the world.

Oscar Nottebohm

The Nottebohm Room in the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library is named after the Antwerp patron Oscar Nottebohm (1865-1935). This particular descendant of the Nottebohm family was a grandson of Diederich Wilhelm Nottebohm who moved to Antwerp from Bielefeld in 1811.

Egyptian Cabinet

There is a remarkable piece of furniture in the Nottebohm Room: The Egyptian Cabinet. It holds twelve unique and impressive volumes containing a total of nine hundred lithographs by Eberhard Weidenbach. The book itself is the ‘Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopiën’ by Karl Richard Lepsius, the result of a three-year expedition along the Nile Valley starting in 1842.

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You can request by email digital scans of all periodical and newspaper articles from our collection, no matter how long ago they were published.

Ordering and using reproductions

Do you need a scan or a print-out, for instance for study purposes or for a publication? You can order it from the reproduction service by email, or fill in a form at the reading room counter.

Antwerp

The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library collects all publications about the city of Antwerp and its history.

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Construction of Dry Docks Park and future Maritime Museum starts

The Maritime Museum will be a hands-on museum, focusing not just on exhibiting the maritime heritage but on the experience of active ship repair work and caring for the nautical heritage. The opening of the Maritime Museum is scheduled for 2023.

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