Maagdenhuis
Former girls' orphanage turned museum, with a carved Renaissance gate, porridge bowls and Flemish masters.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Maagdenhuis in Antwerp, the house that took in orphaned and abandoned girls for over three centuries, starts with an ordinary playing card and a pair of scissors in the nineteenth century. It follows the city's foundling drawer, the strict daily timetable of the girls who lived behind this gate, and the bright porridge bowls they ate from on feast days. Best heard standing at the street gate, looking up at the stone relief above it.
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