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Activities 07 - 08

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Activities in the Season 2007 - 2008

Outing to the Abbey at Tongerlo

Saturday June 21st

Tongerlo Abbey The Abbey at Tongerlo, founded in 1130, the Abbey was dissolved in 1796 but returned to the Premonstratensian monks in 1840 and it is flourishing again.

We started the day with a guided tour of the Abbey. This was followed by a delicious lunch. Inthe afternoon we had a guided tour of the Da Vinci Museum which contains a copy of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper, painted in 1506 by Da Vinci’s pupil, Andrea del Solario, and it was purchased by the Abbey in 1545.

For more information visit the Tongerlo Abbey web site.

Left: The ADFAS group at the entrance to the Abbey.

Above: The picturesque moat by the entrance.

The saints above the door at Tongerlo Abbey

Above: The three saints over the entrance.

Right: Our guide on the far left.

Visit to the Plantin-Moretus Museum

Saturday May 17th

The Plantin-Moretus Museum possesses an exceptional collection of typographical material. Not only does it house the two oldest surviving printing presses in the world and complete sets of dies and matrices, it can also be proud of its magnificent library, a richly decorated interior and the entire archives of the Plantin business.

10 am: meet in the entrance Hall of the Plantin Moretus Museum, Vrijdagmarkt.
10:15 am: guided tour of the Museum with Key Minnebo.

Cost: €10.00

Lunch:

At the end of the tour, we go across the river to Linkeroever – by car, or for those who feel energetic enough, through the Pedestrian Tunnel underneath the River Scheldt. The tunnel, built in 1933, is 570 metres long and well worth a visit on its own, particularly for its original wooden escalators.

13:00: meet for lunch at the VVW (Vlaamse Vereniging van Watersporten) on Linkeroever, the Left bank. It will a fixed menu (€29.00 + drinks)

Reservations: Contact us for more information.

For more information, visit the Museum's web site.

Guided Tour of the Exhibition "British Vision"

Saturday 24 November 2007 at 11 am

This exhibition was on show at the recently renovated Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent.

Guided Tour of The Constant Permeke
and the Paul Delvaux Museums

Saturday 15th September 2007

Entrance to Permeke Museum

A small group of ADFAS members had a very enjoyable day, visiting first the Constant Permeke Museum in Jabbeke. We had a private tour by a very knowledgeable guide through the house, the painting studio, the large gallery which Permeke used as sculpture studio, and the beautiful garden.

Statue in the garden at Permeke

Outside the Permeke Museum

Inside the Permeke museum

We then headed for Sint-Idesbald where we enjoyed a lovely lunch in the Vlierhof garden, the restaurant next to the Delvaux Museum.

In no hurry at all and completely rested, we had another guided tour through the exhibition on the life and career of Delvaux. On show were not only the well-known works with nudes, train stations and Greek temples, but also family pictures, his Brussels studio, works from private collections, his very first works and also his last ones.

For those of you who have not visited the Paul Delvaux Foundation for a few years, I can tell you that it has been substantially enlarged underground and is well worth a new visit.

The ADFAS party in the garden