Summer Sundays for kids at Antwerp's Photo Museum | Zomerse Zondagen

My four-year-old, my four-month-old, and I did Zomerse Zondagen ("Summer Sundays") several times at the Antwerpen Fotomuseum and each time we spent about four engaged and relatively quiet hours in the museum.

The museum provides children's yoga at 10 am each Sunday morning (10 euros) and then after that, you have a nice, calm kid with whom you can explore the many Sunday-only activities for the preschool age that the museum offers.

Whoever designed these activities knows children very well.

You can start on the first floor and paint, marker, or crayon a picture. 

Proceed to the second floor to put together simple puzzles of the more famous photos of the museum using velcro. The velcro is key - the kid can easily stick the pieces together and see some interesting artwork.

Then to the kapla section, where you and the kids can use some other famous photographs to build crazy, multicolored kapla creations. Or, if the kid is teething, he can chew on a piece of wood for a half hour.

On to the art film area, where the museum has some smooth rocks with grafted facial features on each rock and a bunch of empty picture frames. While the barely crawling baby watches the featured film and rolls around on the carpet, the pre-schooler builds faces using a variety of diverse features.

Upwards again to a carpet full of photo books that have been re-created using fabric and 3D art so the kids can feel their way through the photos.

Then into a room full of art supplies and a maze that includes a hula hoop, a tricycle, a tunnel and three levels of wooden boards to climb on. Antwerp is of the opinion, spare the sport, spoil the child.  For the parents, there is a documentary on cameras playing on a loop.