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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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One Day I Will Make the Onion Cry

A ritual, an archive of tears and a moving installation. One Day I Will Make the Onion Cry is a poetic installation that gives form and space to the grief assoc...
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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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PALMARIUM: Fievel is Glauque + Laryssa Kim

This spring, PALMARIUM will once again present a thrilling series of concerts in our beautiful botanical garden. The program includes nine unique concerts with...
Festivity
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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...
Expo
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Museum visit - GUM

Discover the new science museum in the middle of the Ghent Botanical Garden, around the corner from S.M.A.K. and MSK Ghent.
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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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The special collections of the GUM and Ghent University

From a Tasmanian Tiger to a Dogon mask, the first Bakelite and a cork model of the Pantheon to a biomimetic model of a seahorse tail... The GUM can draw on an e...
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Salon

A museum can generate many different impressions. The GUM offers a place where you can catch your breath for a while. In the SALON, you can simply press the hyp...
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GUM history

A collection as old as the university Ghent University was founded in 1817 by William I, King of the Netherlands. To enhance the education offered, William I do...
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