- Address: Koningin Astridplein 19 - 23 B-2018 Antwerpen
- Phone: +32 (0) 3 202 48 90
- E-mail: info@diamant.provant.be
- Website: http://www.diamondland.be/antwerp-diamond-museum/
- Opening date: 1988
- Working hours: from 10.00 to 17.30, Wednesday - closed
- Ticket price: 6 euro, visitors from 12 to 25 years old - 4 euros, children under 12 years free of charge
When traveling in Belgium, be sure to visit the unique Diamond Museum in Antwerp , which contains some of the largest and most beautiful diamonds in the world. Their brilliance will blind even an experienced connoisseur of jewelry. The museum was founded in this city, as Antwerp jewelers specialize in diamond processing for more than five centuries.
Unique collection of the museum
In the museum there are not only magnificent samples of precious stones, but also exclusive products from them, for example, diamond jeans. His exhibitions - a real treasury of jewelry, since the XVI century, whose owners were once aristocrats and celebrities, for example, Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe. On one of the expositions you will see copies of jewelry belonging to the British crown, including the famous pure water diamond "Kohinor".
The "highlight" of the museum is the "Rubens brooch", donated by the Spanish King Philip IV to a talented artist in 1603. When she is examined during the excursions, all the doors to the room with the jewel are sealed because of her incredibly high price. In addition to diamonds themselves, the museum stores both ancient and modern tools for cutting stones.
A feature of this cultural institution is the use of cutting-edge technologies. During a walk through the halls, tourists can use the services of an audio guide, which will tell interesting facts about the museum's collection. Here you can go to one of seven virtual tours to find the perfect diamonds. Visitors will be invited to watch a film about the history of the diamond industry in Antwerp and the impact of diamonds on fashion, style and even history.
Employees care about visitors who have problems with sight or hearing: special sensory routes have been developed for them. Often visitors of the museum become spectators of demonstration sound and light shows, during which the masters demonstrate the process of processing and cutting diamonds.
How to get there?
The museum is very convenient, so you can get to it:
- By train - the cultural institution is located only 20 m from the Central Station .
- Trams number 24, 15, 12, 11, 10, 3, 2 to the stop Diamant.
- Buses number 37, 35, 31, 28, 27, 23, 18, 17, 16, 1 to the stops of Central Station or F. Rooseveltplaats.
- If you travel by car, from the center you should go to Koningin Astridplein.
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