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The GUM and the Botanical Garden are temporarily closed due to corona measures
The GUM (Ghent University Museum) and Ghent Botanical Garden have decided, following the Council of Ministers, to temporarily close their doors from Thursday 29...
Not yet started and already extended - Van Eyck in Depth
The pop-up exhibition 'Van Eyck in Depth. Friction and harmony through the eye of architects and artists', which opens together with the new GUM (Ghent Universi...
Performance | Short Of Lying | 25 & 26 October 2024
Especially for the exhibition 'Wunderkammer of TRUTH', Brazilian writer and performer Luanda Casella is reprising her successful performance 'Short of Lying'.
Artistic anatomy and plumbing appears in the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden
Those who visit the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden from Thursday 7 January will discover two impressive fountains in the pond of the Victoria Greenhouse. T...
GUM welcomed an important guest on Thursday. This 'muscle man' came over from the University Museum Groningen and will be given a central place in the exhibitio...
There's a lot to do on weekdays too during the new art & science festival DARK WEEKends. On Monday, 23, Thursday, 26 and Friday, 27 October 27, from 12 to 1:30...
GUM celebrates VULVAweekend on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 March
3 days after International Women's Day, GUM & the Botanical Garden taking a look ‘down there’ during the one and only VULVAweekend. On these two days, Saturday...
Save the date: DARK WEEKends - Art & Science festival - 21 - 29.10.2023
Scientific and artistic research is not always enlightening. Sometimes, it can be experimental and dark. Moral boundaries are explored and challenged in the pro...
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...
The conservation of a unique masterpiece: Antonio Chichi’s cork model of the Pantheon
This cork model of the Pantheon, which is part of the GUM’s heritage collections, was created by Antonio Chichi (1743-1816). We know very little about this arti...
