Uploaded on 2015-04-26 by HermanLI

In 2011 a new museum opened its doors in Antwerp, a city of around 500.000 inhabitants belonging to more than 150 nationalities in Flanders (Belgium). The name of the museum is “Museum aan de Stroom”, MAS, Museum at the River. In four years the MAS became a crowd puller. The museum is a very localised activity, in the sense that the history and the culture of one particular community are expressed in the collections of the museum. The building itself is a towering monolith of 60 m. The outside wall contributes to the visual identity of the whole construction. That wall is composed by hand cleaved red sandstone from Agra (North India). Since there are various tints of that red stone, a computer algorithm was used to spread the tints over an attractive mosais of shade patterns. This is where a village meets the world.![enter image description here][1] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1430037783323230.jpg