Slow Art Day: Museums encourage visitors to experience art more mindfully

The 16th edition of Slow Art Day takes place today. On Slow Art Day, museums around the world encourage their visitors to experience art in a slow and mindful way. In Belgium, different museums in amongst others Antwerp, Brussels and Hasselt are participating.

The American Phil Terry launched Slow Art Day in 2010. According to research, a museum visitor spends an average of around 30 seconds looking at a work of art. On Slow Art Day, museums, churches and cultural institutions worldwide invite everyone to take their time, view art more slowly and thus discover more.

“The day ties in with the broader ‘slow movement’, which emerged in the 1980s as a reaction to an increasingly fast-paced, consumer-oriented society,” explained Faro, the Flemish support centre for cultural heritage, in a press release.

This year, more than a hundred venues worldwide are taking part: museums, art galleries, studios and other cultural spaces.

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In Antwerp, the KMSKA, the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, the Middelheim Museum, the Red Star Line Museum and St Andrew’s Church are organising, among other things, walks, guided tours and musical performances.

In Brussels, art lovers can visit the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in a different way. There is also a workshop at Gaasbeek Castle, and at Z33 in Hasselt, visitors are guided slowly through the new exhibition “Before our eyes”.

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