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18.10.2025 26.10.2025

DARK WEEKends | Arts & Science Festival

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Museum visit - GUM

  • Closed on Wednesdays

Discover the new science museum in the middle of the Ghent Botanical Garden, around the corner from S.M.A.K. and MSK Ghent.
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Visit Botanical Garden

  • Free entrance

Discover the outdoor garden and greenhouses of this special green science gem in the middle of the city
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DARK WEEKends | Arts & Science Festival

18.10.2025 26.10.2025

18-26 October 2025

From 18 to 26 October 2025, GUM & Botanical Garden will showcase artistic and scientific research on themes of shame, taboo an...
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19. 10. 2025
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Expo (UN)SHAME

18.10.2025 04.01.2026

18 October 2025 – 4 January 2026

With Hanne Lamon, Giulia Cauti, Ugo Woatzi & Loïs Soleil. 

(UN)SHAME makes space for what we like to leave in the dark such as feelings that are too raw, bodies that diverge from the famili...
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19. 10. 2025
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DARK Tour | DARK WEEKends

18.10.2025 19.10.2025
25.10.2025 26.10.2025

  • Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 October - Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 October

  • at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. & 3:30 p.m.

  • Duration: 2 hours

Our GUM guides will take you on a tour of the permanent exhibition. Using a number of objects, they will explore themes such as sh...
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19. 10. 2025
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DARK Matinee | Lecture on 'The Prison' with Lara Staal

19.10.2025 - 15:00 - 17:00

  • Sunday 19 October | 3pm - 5pm

  • This ticket also grants access to the museum and the (UN)SHAME exhibition.

Together with four ex-prisoners, Lara Staal, resident artist at NTGent, made a razor-sharp analysis of the Belgian prison system....
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19. 10. 2025
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DARK workshop | Relational Objects & Somatic Memory

19.10.2025 - 14:00 - 17:00

Sunday 19 October | 14-17u

This workshop offers a gentle, poetic and sensory experience that explores how body, matter and memory are intertwined.
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19. 10. 2025
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DARK art | Altar

18.10.2025 26.10.2025

  • 18-26 October | continuous

  • Entrance with your museum ticket

This colourful composition of flowers and candles, arranged as a memorial, was originally conceived as a set for a play. In Altar,...
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DARK stories @DARK WEEKends

18.10.2025 26.10.2025

  • 18-26 October| continuous

  • entrance with museumticket

Grab your earphones or headphones and discover some of the 'dark' stories behind objects and plants, told by museum staff, guides...
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19. 10. 2025
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MuST chooses COMFORT objects

18.10.2025 26.10.2025

  • 18 - 26 October (museum closed on Wednesday)

  • Entry with your museum ticket

Some members of the Museum Student Team at GUM & Botanical Garden, MuST for short, selected objects that for them offer solace...
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19. 10. 2025
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