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18.10.2025 26.10.2025

DARK WEEKends | Arts & Science Festival

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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
25. 10. 2025
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DARK workshop | Taxidermy

25.10.2025 - 09:30 - 18:00

  • Saturday 25 October | 9h30-18h

  • Minimum age 16 years old

Taxidermy, the preparation or stuffing of animals, is a craft. With due care and respect, a dead animal can be “brought back to li...
Workshop
25. 10. 2025
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The Order of Disappearance | DARK WEEKends

25.10.2025

18-19 oct (more dates will follow)

What does mortality mean in an era where nothing truly disappears? Art collective playField, resident at GUM & Plantentuin, ex...
Performance
25. 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
25. 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
26. 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
26. 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...
Tours
26. 10. 2025
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DARK Matinee | Short D*ck Man

26.10.2025 - 15:00 - 17:00

  • Sunday 26 October | 3pm-5pm

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

In the film Short Dick Man, Matthijs Janssen explores why he has been burdened his entire life by crippling insecurity about the s...
Lectures
26. 10. 2025
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