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Summer at GUM & Botanical Garden

Fancy a surprising summer’s day in Ghent? You’re in the right place at GUM and Botanical Garden. From tropical greenhouses and shady paths to surprising insight...
Events Botanical Garden
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DARK Matinee | Lecture on 'The Prison' with Lara Staal

Together with four ex-prisoners, Lara Staal, resident artist at NTGent, made a razor-sharp analysis of the Belgian prison system. Why do we stubbornly cling to...
Lectures
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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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DARK stories @DARK WEEKends

Grab your earphones or headphones and discover some of the 'dark' stories behind objects and plants, told by museum staff, guides and students.
Festival
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DARK WEEKends | Festival programme

DARK WEEKends shows what usually remains behind closed doors. For nine days, we highlight the stories, methods, and perspectives that researchers and artists us...
Festival
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DARK Breakfast with Uus Knops, Evelien Jonckheere & playField

On the first Sunday of DARK WEEKends, we invite you to the DARK breakfast, a breakfast lecture (with breakfast) where three passionate speakers will take a clos...
Festival
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The Order of Disappearance | DARK WEEKends

What does mortality mean in an era where nothing truly disappears? Art collective playField, resident at GUM & Plantentuin, explores how our approach to death a...
Performance
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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...
Festival
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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”.
Workshop
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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...
Festival
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