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MuST chooses COMFORT objects

Some members of the Museum Student Team at GUM & Botanical Garden, MuST for short, selected objects that for them offer solace and hope in a situation of sadnes...
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DARK workshop | Taxidermy

Taxidermy, the preparation or stuffing of animals, is a craft. With due care and respect, a dead animal can be “brought back to life”.
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Museum Night 2025 | Beyond the dark

During Museum Night, you can immerse yourself in a night full of shadow plays, mystical makeovers, and objects with unfinished business.
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Fauna of the Corpses | DARK WEEKends

At GUM, you will learn that insects can help the police solve murder cases. But first, you have to find them! Search for and find them all to win a nice surpris...
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Book presentation Blinked Myself Awake by Bieke Depoorter

In Blinked Myself Awake, Magnum photographer Bieke Depoorter investigates the fragility of memory, photography's unreliability, the human desire for objectivit...
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Poop-claying | DARK WEEKends

Pooping! It remains something that many people are ashamed of, even though everyone does it. Fortunately, the taboo surrounding it is gradually being broken, an...
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DARK Tour | DARK WEEKends

Our GUM guides will take you on a tour of the permanent exhibition. Using a number of objects, they will explore themes such as shame, taboo and mourning with y...
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DARK Matinee | Short D*ck Man

In the film Short Dick Man, Matthijs Janssen explores why he has been burdened his entire life by crippling insecurity about the size of his penis. The screenin...
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Presentation Vulva Obscura | Hanne Lamon

Breaking a lance for the vulva, removing the shame from the labia and showing its unseen diversity: this is the driving force behind Hanne Lamon's photo project...
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