Museum Night 2025 | Beyond the dark
- 4 December 2025 - 18:00 - 01:00
During Museum Night, you can immerse yourself in a night full of shadow plays, mystical makeovers, and objects with unfinished business.
Séance | Become the Medium
MuST (Museum Student Team) breaks down the boundaries between knowledge, imagination, and the inexplicable during Museum Night.
Step into a ‘séance’ where electromagnetic equipment is no longer just technology, but a portal. A portal to voices that have been left behind in the museum. Objects with memories, theories, and unfinished stories.
In this space, you are not a passive witness. As soon as you enter the circle, you become part of the ether: a living medium that conducts, amplifies, and shapes electromagnetic radiation. Your presence, focus, intention, and resonance can mean the difference between silence and manifestation.
Ready to meet some museum spirits?
GRWM | Museumnight Edition
The Museum Night is a celebration and calls for a playful and daring makeup look! Fortunately, there is plenty of inspiration to be found at GUM & Plantentuin.
Nothing beats stealing the spotlight together, right? MuST invites everyone for a museum night-worthy makeover. Do you love full glam? Or do you prefer a subtle and cute look? Our MuST MUA's provide personalized advice. Do you like a challenge? With a smooth spin of the wheel, you let fate decide for you.
Night Becomes Day, Day is Night
In the depths of night, we bring light to the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden. Night becomes Day and Day is Night.
You walk into the greenhouses. Rainbow colors spread across the pond and illuminate a colorful carpet of flowers. Further on, a mist absorbs the blue-silver glow of the moon, which is low and bright.
We predict that the weather conditions will be perfect for a photo. Out of the corner of your eye, you see an orange glow. It lures you deeper into the greenhouses. When you open a door, the warm rays of the sun hit you in the face.
Golden hour has arrived, and you can enjoy it forever.
Walk of S(H)AME
🔔Shame shame shame!🔔
Tonight, there won't be a bellboy following you around, but you will be exposing yourself during the Walk of S(H)AME.
What is your greatest shame? Do you dare to share it? You're doing it for a good cause!
Because every shame that is shared can be a relief for someone else. So we won't leave you with your shame, but with a feeling of recognition and connection.
SHAME becomes SAME.
Explore the expo (UN)SHAME
(UN)SHAME creates space for what we prefer to keep in the dark, such as feelings that are too raw, bodies that deviate from the familiar, truths that are too heavy for polite conversation. Here, shame is named, unmasked, and kindly asked to step aside.
Four artists explore what we usually keep in the dark. They dissect the many complex layers of shame—as an open-ended process.
With Hanne Lamon, Giulia Cauti, Ugo Woatzi, and Loïs Soleil.
Thursday, December 4
6 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Free admission, no reservation required
In all Ghent museums. Discover the full program in all participating museums here.
