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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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Book presentation Blinked Myself Awake by Bieke Depoorter | 12 November 2024

In Blinked Myself Awake, Magnum photographer Bieke Depoorter investigates the fragility of memory, photography's unreliability, the human desire for objectivity...
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GUM nominated for European Museum of the Year Award!

GUM (Ghent University Museum) has been nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award 2022, the most prestigious museum prize in Europe. The new 'Forum for...
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Street artist ROA takes over brand-new GUM

World-renowned street artist ROA expresses his love for anatomy on the façade of the brand-new Ghent University Museum.Right this moment, universally acclaimed...
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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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