Cultural things to do in Ostend

Dates to be confirmed. The week long Ostend Film Festival (Filmfestival Oostend) is a key event in Belgium’s film calendar. It offers a varied programme built around new releases for autumn, with interesting previews of both television series and sc

The exhibition Joe Scanlan, Part II: Truffle Finds Pig is an extremely original exhibition since its principle is to borrow Nesting Bookcases by Joe Scanlan (objects previously exhibited in the museum) and put them on show them at home or in busines

The exhibition is made up of a selection of the works from the Spilliaert collection at the Mu.ZEE. The Belgian painter frequented the Belgian Symbolist milieu. Léon Spilliaert influences range from Edvard Munch to Fernand Khnopff and similar themes

Mu.ZEE looks back on Edouard Léon Théodore Mesens' (1903-1971) career. He was a collector and director of the London Gallery, notably involved in Rene Magritte's success at the international level. Close to the Dadaist and Surrealist painters, Mesen

Once a naval training ship between 1932 and 1960, the Mercator has since been converted into a floating museum in Ostend. It lies in anchor just in front of the city hall.Following renovation in 2009, the Mercator has a new afterdeck and masts.

Napoleon built this fort on the dunes of Ostend in 1811 as a defence against possible attack from England. But a British invasion never came. Instead the fort served as an arsenal and was occupied by the French army until the early twentieth century

Taking visitors back to the rich and sometimes painful past of Ostend, Domain Raversijde is a site with three major attractions.Atlantikwall is an open-air museum where you can see the trenches and bunkers used during both world wars, which serve as