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Friday 14th September 2012 the build of the Train World museum started with putting down the first stone 1. The museum will be build next to the railway station Schaerbeek in Brussels. The expected opening of the museum will be in 2014. According to Jannie Haek, CEO of NMBS-Holding Train World will become much more than just a museum. It will show how important transport by train was in the past and will be in the future 2.
François Schuiten made the scenography of the museum. He has been working on it for over 6 years.
The new building will be combined with the old building. It will be about 8,000 square meters and will cost 20 million euros 3.
More information in the dictionary at Train World, Railroad museum Schaerbeek.
The biography of Jacques Derrida written by Benoît Peeters was published in French in 2011 AD. Benoîts work on this biography was the main reason why La Douce was solely made by François Schuiten. The biography of Derrida was received very well.
Peeters does not present himself primarily as a philosopher and he certainly never claims to have been part of Derrida's inner circle. Despite these limitations, he was really the man for the job, as demonstrated by the willingness of Derrida's widow, Marguerite Aucouturier, to give him full access to her husband's private archives—an absolute novelty in Derrida scholarship. Derrida donated part of these archives to the University of California-Irvine, where he taught during the last years of his life. After a conflict with this institution, he donated the remainder of his personal papers to the French IMEC (the Institut Mémoires de l'Édition Contemporaine), yet many documents are still in the possession of the Derrida family. Peeters's biography takes into account all of these materials, which have been studied through various research stays in California and at the Ardenne Abbey. The seriousness of Peeters's approach and the quality of the biographical data and evidence he has gathered in this book are evident in the more than 100 interviews he conducted with first-hand witnesses 1.
This biography is now translated in English and will be available from October 2012 2. Also a German translation has been made and this version will be available from January 2013 3.
Hundreds of readers of the Stripspeciaalzaak.be website have voted for their favorite top 50 album series. A total of 518 album series were nominated. The Obscure Cities series (Duistere Steden) has taken place 42. For each top 50 series they make a special report. You can download their (Dutch) report on the Obscure Cities (14mb).
