Do you ever go to an art exhibition and think you could do just as well? Belgians got the chance to prove that when Museum Pass put out a call last September for anyone who wanted to send them a photo of a work they had made themselves. Museum Pass is the initiative whereby Belgians residents can...

Paul Dujardin, until earlier this year the general director of Bozar, has been retained by the Royal Museums of Art and History to oversee an artistic restructuring in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of Belgium in 2030. Specifically, Dujardin ( pictured ) will lead a project to renovate and...

Antwerp Zoo has announced the arrival of a baby Malayan tapir. Mother Nakal gave birth to the baby earlier this month, and visitors can see him scampering around when they visit the zoo. Following a 13-month pregnancy, Nakal gave birth to the baby, her fourth but the first male. The pregnancy and...

The Hallerbos, the forest famous for its carpets of bluebells during the spring, is to be expanded by half a hectare, according to the Flemish Agency for Nature and Forests which will plant 400 new trees and bushes in a new section the size of a football field. This follows on from the last...

‎The City of Brussels has received a regional subsidy through its land management agency of almost €206,000 for the renovation of several buildings where homeless young people from the LGBTQI+ community will be able to find shelter. ‎ ‎The project, which was given the name Housing First, is the...

Parking on the street within the pentagon – the area of Brussels-City within the inner ring road – is set to become more expensive next year. The higher fees are part of a general reform of parking regulations in the municipality. The pentagon is currently a green zone, which means that anyone...

The new sleeper train service from Brussels to Prague, by way of Amsterdam and Berlin, will launch next summer. The service is the first to be launched by the new Belgian-Dutch co-operative European Sleeper. The company announced earlier this year that a service between Brussels and Prague would be...

The Council of Ministers have agreed on the creation of a centre of excellence for the climate, the secretary of state in charge of science policy Thomas Dermine announced on Friday. The permanent centre will be located on the Uccle plateau and will be integrated into the operations of the Federal...

Half of the babies born in Belgium during 2020 had a mother of Belgian nationality and origin, according to a report released by the Federal Planning Bureau on Friday, based on data from Statbel, the Belgian statistics office. Nearly 23% of new-borns in 2020 had a Belgian mother of foreign origin...