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Professor DOUBT & the reSEARCHtour

You get questions and assignments that guide you through the museum in a playful way. Sometimes surprising or bizarre, now and then with a twist. There are skul...
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The GUM (Ghent University Museum) postpones its opening due to coronavirus

In accordance with government measures, Ghent University and the GUM (Ghent University Museum) have decided to postpone the grand opening of the brand-new scien...
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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 2023, the end of the Easter holiday...
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Tomb stele of Hetepe and Iki

This tomb stele comes from Abydos. This was one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Egypt.
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Wip Wap

The 18th and early 19th centuries were the heydays of the physique amusante.
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Ammonite

Ammonites are extinct, squid-like molluscs that lived in a spiral shell.
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Female bowl-bearing figure

The female figure is the most common motif in Luba art.
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Red–figure kylix with athlete scene

This red-figure drinking vessel portrays young athletes with a strigil (a scraper for removing sweat and dirt from the body)
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Model: age estimation of a horse

French doctor Louis Auzoux manufactured anatomical models of animals, humans and plants.
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Twin figure

An ere ibeji is a carved wooden figure of a twin who died in childhood.
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