Azkoyen supplies the access control system to the MAS Museum in Antwerp

La solución de control de accesos proporcionada por Azkoyen, through its subsidiary GET, allows enabling specific areas of the MAS museum for specific events, dispense cards for security personnel or organizers. Besides, the installed tool is connected with the fire prevention program and security cameras which will allow speeding up an evacuation if necessary.

The Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS), considered the largest in Antwerp, it receives 3.500 visitors per day and houses 470.000 ethnographic and maritime objects, inter alia, related to the port city. Besides, it is used as a meeting center and has an attractive restaurant.

Given the characteristics of this building, it required an access control system that would guarantee the building's security and allow controlling access. With a cost of one hundred thousand euros, the project was awarded to Grupo Azkoyen.

The access control system was installed by GET, a Belgian company that belongs to the Azkoyen group, and allows enabling specific areas of the museum for particular events, issue access cards for security or exhibition organization staff on a temporary basis. The software is connected at the same time to the fire prevention system and the security cameras to trigger an evacuation if necessary.

The Aan de Stroom museum is located next to the port, tiene 60 metros de altura y ha sido diseñado por Neutelings Riedijk Architects. La fachada está realizada en arenisca roja india con paneles curvos de cristal que permiten una vista 360º sobre la ciudad.

Los temas principales sobre los que se organiza la colección del museo son Metrópolis, Poder, Vida y Muerte y la historia de Amberes como un puerto internacional de referencia.

El museo está comprometido con las nuevas tecnologías y por ello ha colocado códigos QR en muchos objetos con información en cinco idiomas: English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish.