Routes to Knowledge Exhbit - Leuven Library

Routes to Knowledge

Leuven University Library

Friday, February 6, 11:30

For six hundred years, KU Leuven and its students, professors and other staff have faced challenges, setbacks and victories. The exhibition Routes to Knowledge presents the university as a crossroads where thousands of personal journeys have intersected over the course of the centuries. What obstacles lay in the path of women or people of color? What milestones are celebrated or commemorated?

The exhibition tells the stories of the great and small paths taken at the university in three chapters. 'Imagine' reveals the role of traditions, rituals and symbols, and how they have made their mark on the university’s self-image over the centuries. 'Overcome' considers barriers and exclusion: who was allowed to study or work at the university, and who was not? Finally, 'Explore' sets its sights on the wider world: students who have come from far and wide, research that travels around the globe and also ways in which the university has moved beyond its own walls.

-taken from the KU Leuven website

Limit 15

Costs &  Payment

Cost: 10 euros for AWCA members; 15 euros for guests and FAWCO member clubs. 

Payment does not include admission to the museum, which is 10 euros, free for those with a museum pass, and may be purchased on site. 

Payments are to be made to AWCA IBAN: BE61 7380 4701 5417.  Description: Routes to Knowledge tour + “Your Name”.

The deadline for registration is Monday, Feb. 2.

Please note that places that have not been paid for by the deadline will be given to those on the Waiting List. Cancellations after the deadline cannot be refunded.

Practical Details

Meeting place: Inner gallery at the entrance of the University Library, Mgr. Ladeuzeplein 21, Leuven.  

Meeting time: 11:15, which gives us plenty of time to purchase entrance tickets. The tour begins right at 11:30 so please be sure to purchase your entrance tickets before then. 

The tour will last about 1.5 hours.

Once registration is complete, I will create a WhatsApp group so we can arrange all the travel details. 

If you have any questions or would like to be put on the waiting list, please contact me at cristin.middlebrooks@gmail.com.