Amazing

Carine: "I've also participated in a few online activities, and I thought the offerings were well thought out. Professionally, I'm involved a lot in project management, and I was impressed by how much planning is involved in such a museum - amazing! You can also see that the employees of M are passionate about what they do. The M-bassadors are like-minded souls too: people with a shared interest, not whiners."

Mark: "In the online offerings, the lecture series on Vincent Geyskens stood out for me. The past few months M has been showing an exhibition about his work, and in three online lectures we were able to see how it came about: how a museum decides which artist to dedicate to an exhibition, how to involve the public, how the exhibition is constructed... At the end we got a preview - that was live at the museum though."

Carine: "The lecture on construction has stayed with me. That's a lot more than just hanging works on the wall: M has its own studio where they make the exhibition furniture according to the artist's wishes. Too bad we couldn't see that live."

"Personally, I have more of an affinity for old masters, but those lectures introduced me to art I hadn't had much interest in before. All sorts of questions immediately come to mind: how do you come up with the idea of making something like this, what goes on in the mind of such an artist? That's what appeals to me at M: that you learn something. You don't see things there that you might as well go see somewhere else."

International attention

Mark: "I also visit museums abroad, and I dare say that M really stands out at times. I don't like everything, but some exhibitions rightly get international attention - think 'Borman and Sons'."

Carine: "I really liked 'Rodin, Meunier & Minne'. If only to see 'The Thinker' again, in my own city! It was mainly the combination of old and more modern art that I liked. Many museums are compartmentalized: either old art or contemporary. That way you don't get to know new things as a visitor. "M is a museum that dares to look over the wall"