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18.10.2025 26.10.2025

DARK WEEKends | Arts & Science Festival

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DARK Breakfast with Uus Knops, Evelien Jonckheere & playField

19.10.2025 - 10:00 - 12:00

  • Zondag 19 October | 10 am-12 am

  • Spoken language: Dutch

On the first Sunday of DARK WEEKends, we invite you to the DARK breakfast, a breakfast lecture (with breakfast) where three passio...
Festival
19. 10. 2025
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Poop-claying | DARK WEEKends

18.10.2025 19.10.2025
25.10.2025 26.10.2025

18–19 October, 25–26 October | 2 pm–5 pm

Pooping! It remains something that many people are ashamed of, even though everyone does it. Fortunately, the taboo surrounding it...
Workshop
19. 10. 2025
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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...
Festival
20. 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...
Expo
20. 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,...
Festival
20. 10. 2025
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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...
Festival
20. 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...
Festival
20. 10. 2025
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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...
Festival
21. 10. 2025
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