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18.10.2025 26.10.2025

DARK WEEKends | Arts & Science Festival

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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
26. 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
26. 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
26. 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
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
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. 10. 2025
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