Panamarenko Junior Apr 2026

Discover the Panamarenkohuis with your family: the place where Panamarenko lived and worked for more than thirty years.

Panamarenko dreamed of moving freely everywhere: on land, underwater, in the air and in space. In 1970, he bought a house in Biekorfstraat in Antwerpen. He lived there for more than thirty years, together with parrots, a toucan, a dog and his mother.

During Panamarenko Junior, you discover this magical place with a guide. We tell stories and invent, calculate and draw, experiment and imagine. Perhaps you will come up with something that does not yet exist…

For families with children aged 6 and over. Tickets are required for every participant.

Programme

Panamarenko Junior

14:00-15:30 | Panamarenkohuis, Biekorfstraat 2, Antwerpen | From age 6

With a guide, you visit the house where Panamarenko conceived and made floating cars, flying backpacks, pedal-powered helicopters, live-in zeppelins, submarines and flying saucers.

The tour starts from wonder and imagination. Children and their families discover how Panamarenko looked at machines, animals, movement and freedom. Along the way, there is time to look, ask questions, draw, calculate and continue imagining together.

Places are limited to a maximum of 10 participants.

Plan your visit

Practical information

Date: Wednesday 29 April
Time: 14:00-15:30
Price: 13,78 euros per participant, including booking fee, admission, guide and a drink afterwards
For whom: families with children aged 6 and over. Younger and older family members are also welcome.
Tickets: buy a ticket for each participant, including an accompanying adult.
Number of participants: maximum 10 participants; buy your tickets in good time.
Location: Panamarenkohuis, Biekorfstraat 2, Antwerpen
Meeting point: at the Panamarenkohuis, Biekorfstraat 2, Antwerpen
Questions? Email reservatie@muhka.be

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About Panamarenko

Panamarenko was an artist who constantly explored the boundary between art, science, technology and imagination. He designed machines for flying, sailing, floating and travelling, often with a remarkable mix of seriousness, humour and fantasy.

His house in Biekorfstraat was not a conventional studio, but a place where living, working, collecting and inventing flowed into one another. Among animals, books, parts and drawings, ideas emerged for devices that could sometimes really move and sometimes mainly set the imagination in motion.

During this family tour, we look at Panamarenko’s world from a child’s perspective: curious, investigative and free.

Reading tip

This family programme is based on Panamarenko Junior, a children’s book by writer Brigitte Minne about the young Panamarenko, published by Eenhoorn.

In the book, little Henri is fascinated by flight, beetles and birds. During the Second World War, he sees aeroplanes and submarines for the first time. Later, he gets up to mischief, works in the docks for a while and is admitted to art school.

The book is available in the M HKA bookshop.