It sounds like the nerdiest day out
you could imagine: four hours
on a bus touring the container
terminals and dry docks of the port
of Antwerp. But that’s exactly the
attraction the city is offering this
year, three days a week from now
until the end of September. Is it as
dull as it sounds? Well, last year
3,500 people didn’t think so. I was
one of them, and I’ll be signing up
again for this year’s edition.
A century after the World’s Fair
in Ghent, the city’s Museum
of Industrial Archaeology
and Textile (MIAT) has set up the
exhibition Under Power: 100 Years of
Electricity. In 1913, electricity wasn’t
yet a regular force in everyone’s
daily life, but the boundless belief
in its future applications was clearly
visible at the World’s Fair. The MIAT
examines to what extent this promise
has been fulfilled.
Flanders Today is a 
