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21.10.2023 29.10.2023

DARK WEEKends - Art & 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

  • Free online booking requested

Discover the outdoor garden and greenhouses of this special green science gem in the middle of the city
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RUMOR // Unfolding Futures - playField

  • 14.09 - 7.12.2023

  • part of your museum visit

From 14 September to December 7 2023 you will find the artistic installation RUMOR // Unfolding Futures in the GUM GALLERY. Art co...
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Night of the Imagination in GUM, MSK en S.M.A.K.

29.09.2023 30.09.2023

  • Friday evening, September 29 from 7:29 PM to 1 AM

  • GUM & Botanical Garden, MSK and S.M.A.K.

  • Organization: Festival of Flanders

On Friday September 29 the Night of the Imagination will take place for a second time in GUM & Botanical Garden, S.M.A.K. and...
Festivity
30. 09. 2023
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Thursday Late @ GUM, Botanical Garden

05.10.2023 - 17:30 - 22:00
02.11.2023 - 17:30 - 22:00

  • 6pm to 10pm

  • book in advance online or come by the evening itself (limited capacity)

  • separate tickets for GUM and Serres

Every first Thursday evening of the month, GUM and the Botanical Garden open their doors, together with almost all other Ghent Mus...
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05. 10. 2023
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DARK WEEKends - Art & Science festival

21.10.2023 29.10.2023

  • 21 - 29.10.2023

  • GUM & Botanical Garden

Don’t expect pumpkins or other Halloween paraphernalia at GUM & Botanical Garden this October. True to their baseline of ‘Foru...
Festivity
21. 10. 2023
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STIMMEN. Linguistic Research in Times of War, 1917-1918

  • part of DARK WEEKends

  • Saturday 21 until Sunday 29 October 2023

  • closed on Wednesday

  • part of your museum visit

Does science sometimes benefit from war? The story of STIMMEN confronts us with this uncomfortable question. During the First Worl...
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21. 10. 2023
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Syphilis Wax Class - Eleanor Crook - workshop

21.10.2023 - 10:30 - 14:00
22.10.2023 - 10:30 - 14:00

  • as part of DARK WEEKends

  • Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 October at 10:30 am

  • €40 (incl. museum visit & DARK eXpo)

Renowned British medical artist and anatomical sculptor Eleanor Crook, gives a unique hands-on lesson in “Pathological Moulage”,...
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21. 10. 2023
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Ernani’s Heart – Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

21.10.2023 - 10:00 - 18:00
22.10.2023 - 10:00 - 18:00
23.10.2023 - 09:30 - 17:30
24.10.2023 - 09:30 - 17:30
26.10.2023 - 09:30 - 17:30
27.10.2023 - 09:30 - 17:30
28.10.2023 - 10:00 - 18:00
29.10.2023 - 10:00 - 18:00

  • part of your museum visit

  • artistic installation

For its performance of Verdi's masterpiece Ernani (2022-2023), Opera Ballet Vlaanderen built a large-scale, lifelike beating heart...
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21. 10. 2023
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DARK WEEKends - Art & Science festival

21.10.2023 29.10.2023

  • 21 - 29.10.2023

  • GUM & Botanical Garden

Don’t expect pumpkins or other Halloween paraphernalia at GUM & Botanical Garden this October. True to their baseline of ‘Foru...
Festivity
22. 10. 2023
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STIMMEN. Linguistic Research in Times of War, 1917-1918

  • part of DARK WEEKends

  • Saturday 21 until Sunday 29 October 2023

  • closed on Wednesday

  • part of your museum visit

Does science sometimes benefit from war? The story of STIMMEN confronts us with this uncomfortable question. During the First Worl...
Audio
22. 10. 2023
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