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Flemish Masterpieces

The Flemish Masterpieces Decree protects rare and indispensable masterpieces. The list includes two manuscripts from the Letterenhuis collection.

Students and researchers

Students and researchers can visit the reading room to consult archival material.

Tours and guides

Would you like to visit the Letterenhuis in a group? A guide will conduct you through the depot and tell you about a number of authors and works of Flemish literature in the 19th and 20th centuries.

About the Letterenhuis

The Letterenhuis is the literary archive of Flanders. It collects and preserves manuscripts, letters, photographs and other documents by writers, poets, publishers and literary magazines from 1800 to the present.

Antwerpen Boekenstad

Antwerp Book City

Antwerpen Boekenstad [Antwerp Book City] carries out a support policy for existing projects and a promotional policy that profiles Antwerp as the book metropolis for Flanders.

The building

The Letterenhuis was originally housed in the De Beukelaer House on the Minderbroedersrui. In 1959, a new and modern building in the Minderbroedersstraat was taken into use.

History

The ‘Museum van de Vlaamsche Letterkunde' [Museum of Flemish Literature] was founded in 1933. More than 80 years later, the Letterenhuis has grown into a literary archive centre for Flanders. It stimulates attention for the literary heritage and collects, preserves and makes accessible the archival and documentary heritage of literature in Flanders.

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Exhibitions & Events

The Letterenhuis organises exhibitions about flemish authors, literary movements and such. It also organises activities such as book presentations, seminars, poetry readings, small or big events.

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