Visit Antwerp's home of fashion the MoMu

Dedicated followers of fashion heading to Belgium should make sure they stop off at the MoMu, Antwerp's museum of fashion, the Lonely Planet reports.

The museum is found in the ModeNatie complex which is also the location of the fashion department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Flanders Fashion Institute.

According to the Lonely Planet, tastes within the museum, which changes its exhibitions every six months, are stuck "firmly to avant-garde".

Entry to the museum is free and from March until mid-August the exhibition on display will recognise the achievements of the Veronique Branquino fashion label in the Moi, Veronique show.

The exhibition is intended as a retrospective the ten-year history of the fashion label with pieces and comments by the designer herself.

A number of tours and educational lectures are also open to members of the public.

The MoMu was opened on September 21st 2002.