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DARK WEEKends | Arts & Science Festival

From 18 to 26 October 2025, GUM & Botanical Garden will showcase artistic and scientific research on themes of shame, taboo and grief through an expo, talks, wo...
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Wunderkammer of TRUTH

Does absolute certainty exist? And if so, can we even find it? What is science's role in this? Immerse yourself in the Wunderkammer of TRUTH and find out all ab...
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Expo (UN)SHAME

(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 familiar, truths too heavy for polit...
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Ernani’s Heart – Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

For its performance of Verdi's masterpiece Ernani (2022-2023), Opera Ballet Vlaanderen built a large-scale, lifelike beating heart. A unique and unforgettable p...
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DARK workshop | Relational Objects & Somatic Memory

This workshop offers a gentle, poetic and sensory experience that explores how body, matter and memory are intertwined.
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Museum Shop

We won’t reveal exactly what you’ll find in the Museum Shop, but we promise a surprising range of irresistible ‘Art & Science’ items with a twist. Just what you...
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Morphology subcollection

To illustrate their lessons, the faculty's anatomists and pathologists began to preserve domestic and livestock animals. Veterinary students were able to study,...
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GUM: a new science museum in Ghent

A green gem for science near the future museum square The GUM - Ghent University Museum - and the Ghent Botanical Garden are joining forces at a unique location...
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History of Ghent’s Botanical Garden

Born in 1797Ghent’s Botanical Garden has existed for more than 200 years. After the Southern Netherlands were conquered by Napoleon in 1794, Ghent became the ca...
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Zoology subcollection

Established in 1817The core of this collection is a natural history collection that the science professors were able to buy from a local secondary school in 181...
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