Due to a cycling event, there will be some mobility disruption on Saturday. The GUM and Botanical Garden will be open via the side entrance.

New expo BORDERS

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BORDERS

To collide, to balance, and to move between yourself, the other, and the world ➜ On view from 26.03.2026

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BORDERS | New Expo at Ghent University Museum & Botanical Garden

Step into an exhibition that challenges where things end and begin. Expect hands-on citizen science, bold artistic voices, intriguing objects from science and h...
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09. 01. 2026
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The museum of doubt – second edition with a new epilogue by Marjan Doom

Doubt. For some, it feels like a burden; for others, it is an invitation to think more deeply. For our director Marjan Doom, doubt is an indispensable driving f...
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28. 08. 2025
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DARK WEEKends | Art & Science Festival 2025

From 18 to 26 October, GUM & Botanical Garden will showcase artistic and scientific research on themes such as shame, taboo, and grief through an exhibition...
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12. 06. 2025
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Wunderkammer of TRUTH: A Visual Retrospective

Dive into the world of Wunderkammer of TRUTH - find out all about the truth.... or not!
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21. 04. 2025
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“Firespitter” helm mask
Greek statue of a woman
Model of a Horse-chestnut
Beauchêne preparation of a long-horned beetle
Fauna of Corpses
Long-spine porcupinefish
Leg prosthesis
Ifá divination bowl
Wax model of a woman’s face with leprosy
Wip Wap
Gallo-Roman hunting beaker
Model: age estimation of a horse
Hat mould “conformateur”
Glé head
Chronoscope
Exoskelet Wall-X
Volcanic slag
Female bowl-bearing figure
Bust of a Neolithic chieftain
'Ball and stick’ model of benzene
Model of human ear
Metaphase in meiosis
Twin figure
Swarm robots
Red–figure kylix with athlete scene
Obstetrical forceps
Measuring cylinder
Platinum crucibles
Wire frames for surface tension study
Glossopteris fossil leaves
Tomb stele of Hetepe and Iki
‘Screw-barrel’ microscope
The god K’awiil
Ammonite
Eyetracker
Phenakistiscope disc
Cast of a horse’s cerebral arteries
Simmental Cow
Lavoisier-Laplace calorimeter
White European mole
Hydrostatic balance
Seahorse tail
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