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Save the date: DARK WEEKends - Art & Science festival - 21 - 29.10.2023

Scientific and artistic research is not always enlightening. Sometimes, it can be experimental and dark. Moral boundaries are expl...

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The 'PHALLUS. Norm & Form' exhibition is moving to Groningen (NL)

On Sunday 16 April, the GUM (Ghent University Museum) closed the doors to the PHALLUS. Norm & Form exhibition. For more than a...

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GUM celebrates VULVAweekend on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 March

3 days after International Women's Day, GUM & the Botanical Garden taking a look ‘down there’ during the one and only VULVAwee...

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Many people, young and old, visited the GUM & Botanical Garden in 2022!

The GUM & Botanical Garden enjoyed a very successful first post-pandemic year, with our new ‘Forum for Science, Doubt & Ar...

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GUM goes for PHALLUS extension until 16 April 2023

It gives GUM great pleasure to announce that the successful exhibition PHALLUS. Norm & Form is being extended until 16 April 2...

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Penis plant in bloom in Ghent Botanical Garden

UPDATE FRIDAY 24 JUNE 4 P.M.: THE BLOOM HAS STARTEDTHE BOTANICAL GARDEN WILL BE OPEN ON FRIDAY EVENING 24/06 AND SATURDAY EVENING...

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GUM receives 'Special Commendation' during European Museum of the Year Award 2022

Saturday 7 May, the European Museum of the Year Award 2022 took place in Tartu (Estonia). GUM, along with 3 other Belgian museums,...

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GUM teaches the public to draw phalluses, vulvas and more with a surprising connect-the-dots booklet.

20 pages, 20 vaginas – or not at all?What do you see down there? Using a remarkable connect-the-dots booklet, GUM (Ghent Universit...

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The Botanical Garden and GUM welcome Floraliën Ghent

From 29 April to 8 May 2022, Ghent will put flowers in the spotlight... with "My Paradise, My Worldly Garden", the theme of the Gh...

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