Museums

Museum of Fine Arts

[Museum v. Schone Kunsten route ]

The strength and the charm of the MSK is the variety of its collection and the way it is presented: never before have...

[S.M.A.K. route ]

Dynamic and highly individual. That’s Ghent and it also describes its museum of contemporary art.

[Sint-Pietersabdij route ]

The refectory wing of St Peter’s Abbey is authentically medieval. The splendid...

[Design museum route ]

Behind a charming 18th-century façade lurks a modern, airy building. The central...

[MIAT route ]

In the Middle Ages, Ghent cloth was known far beyond the national borders.

[Huis van Alijn route ]

When you enter the splendid indoor garden of this former place of worship, it seems as if you have left the city. Inside...

A museum in Belgium’s oldest psychiatric hospital, built in 1857: you’d be ‘crazy’ not to...

[Wereld van Kina - Huis route ]

A unique fossil of a pre-historic reptile, a splendid diorama room with native birds and a replica model of Ghent as it was 450 years ago...

More than 1000 plant species, a bee colony and live tarantulas in the Garden...

Back to the old school benches? The School of Yesteryear is housed in a typical school building from 1901.

[STAM route ]

The STAM, the Museum of the City of Ghent, will rise on the site of the Bijloke Complex.

[Museum Vander Haeghen route ]

The interiors of the Museum Arnold Vander Haeghen appeal enormously to the imagination. The most attractive ..

Nothing can halt the advance of science, and it is continually evolving. This is wonderfully illustrated...

The Illuseum confounds you with tricks of the eye and optical illusions. Just don’t believe your eyes!

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