MAS - Museum aan de Stroom

To be quite frank, this museum was a bit of a let down, primarily, because it has so much potential that just goes unfulfilled. Example, on the 2nd floor I think, there is an entire very long wall, with beautiful paintings just stacked against the wall, piled in there as you might say, not in a position to truly appreciate their beauty but enough to recognize that they are beautiful. They are all behind a steel cage with the cross sections of the cage, so close together, that I couldn't even get my camera to focus on the paintings but would only focus on the cage. Such a waste. I asked the floor attendant why these were behind a cage and he replied that several years ago, there had been an incident, so my question to him was, so because of thus incident, instead of resolving whatever circumstances allowed for the incident to happen, you just store them in a cage. His respond was a facial expression of agreement with me but simply shrugged your shoulders as to say, what can you do, I'm not in charge. The other floors were ok, but the orginization was terrible. Small exhibits were spaced too far apart, like they were just trying to fill the space with what they were actually willing to publicly display. The titles on cards for each exhibit were most often, not multi lingual or even present at all, leaving no context with which to appreciate the exhibit. You can go there to say that you went, but that's, at least for me, the only take away. Some of the exhibits were OK, but the negatives far outweighed the positives. You can go to the roof and get a very nice view of the city, there was that at least.