the Ghent museums - Stam

the Ghent
museums
2012 – 2013
so many
museums

2 street map Main bus and tram lines to the museums featured in this brochure. Situation from November 2012
(after completion of renovation and road works). For further information, go to www.delijn.be/gent
Arts District
Historic Centre
1 Museum of Fine Arts
2 S.M.A.K.
3 St Peter’s Abbey
4 The World of Kina: the House
5 STAM – Ghent City Museum
6 Design museum Gent
7 The House of Alijn
8 MIAT
9 The World of Kina: the Garden
10 Dr Guislain Museum
11 Tourist Information Office –
Oude Vismijn

ImprINt
This brochure was produced by
STAM in association with The House
of Alijn, Dr Guislain Museum,
S.M.A.K., Museum of Fine Arts, MIAT,
The World of Kina, Design museum
Gent and St Peter’s Abbey.
edItors
Mia Verstraete, tekstchirurg,
and STAM
traNslatIoN
Alison Mouthaan-Gwillim
GraphIc desIGN
studio Saskia Wierinck
froNt cover
St Peter’s Abbey vineyard, TRACK,
open-air library, Massimo Bartolini,
2012 © photograph: Jef Boes
reGIstered puBlIsher
Lieven Decaluwe
Botermarkt 1
BE-9000 Ghent
Dear Museum Enthusiast
a visit to Ghent’s museums is always an experience. the themes are
invariably original, the approach intriguing and the insights enriching.
You’ll also find you are spoilt for choice with subjects ranging from
design, visual art and photography, through psychiatry, nature,
industry and technology to the minutiae of life and the eventful
history of our city… But all the more reason to pay regular visits to
Ghent and discover something new each time!
This brochure outlines the highlights for the coming cultural season at
nine of Ghent’s museums. We feel sure you will find plenty of inspiration for
a visit. For more detailed information about a specific museum’s exhibition
programme, you may like to consult the museum’s own website.
The brochure also contains information and tips for a day-out in Ghent,
whether it’s a guided walk, a boat trip, a convivial street café or restaurant,
or a good place to stay. Alternatively, check out the websites listed on page 15.
And when you’re in the city, be sure to pop into the brand-new Tourist Information
Office in the Old Fish Market, where a wealth of information is accessible
via the latest technology.
If you can’t get enough of Ghent, why not stay on for a couple of days?
We would love to have you! Be sure to take advantage of the Ghent Museum
Pass, which makes visiting museums and using public transport incredibly good
value. In the autumn this pass will become a digital City Card offering you even
more for your money!
Ghent’s museums, the Department of Culture and Sport and the Tourist
Office wish you a most enjoyable stay in Ghent!
Lieven Decaluwe
Alderman for Culture, Tourism and Festivities
foreword 3
so much city

4 the house of alIjN
↑ House of Alijn collection
→ House of Alijn collection
↘ House of Alijn collection
The House of Alijn
our everyday cultural heritage is a vast treasure-house of stories of
things which pass but should never be allowed to pass into oblivion. and
that’s what the house of alijn is all about! a museum with a passion for
daily life in the twentieth century. a museum with a wealth of stories to
tell about the minutiae of life and life’s major events in the early twentieth
century and in the post-war years.
The best day of their lives
From the photo album, 5th instalment
01.04 – 04.11.2012
The public is helping the House of Alijn build a
digital photo album about daily life in the 20th century.
What makes this album different is that it consists of
photographs found in private family albums. Family
albums provide insight into the spirit of an age and
show how customs and practices evolved through the
20th century. A selection of the thousands of
photographs collected are presented in a succession
of themed exhibitions.
The thread running through this instalment is major
‘happy events’ in family life. One of the happiest is
the wedding day and the portrait of the newly-weds.
Wedding photographs have many stories to tell. In this
exhibition the House of Alijn lifts a corner of the veil.
En avant, marche!
21.11.2012 – 19.05.2013
Belgium distinguishes between three traditional
types of brass band: ‘fanfares’, ‘harmonieorkesten’ and
‘brassbands’. Each of these wind orchestras has its own
history of highs and lows, but a celebration was never a
celebration without a brass band of some description.
These days they are enjoying a comeback with
alternative marching bands and murgas acquiring a
trendy image in the cities. Intrigued by the beauty of
that world, photographer Stephan Vanfleteren captured
band members on camera. His portraits of musicians
will be on show in the En avant, marche! exhibition at
the House of Alijn.
in cooperation with VLAMO and the publisher Kannibaal
the house of alIjN
Kraanlei 65, BE-9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 269 23 50
F +32 (0)9 269 23 58
info@huisvanalijn.be
www.huisvanalijn.be
www.facebook.com/huisvanalijn
Partial wheelchair access
Tram 1 or 4: Gravensteen stop
opeNING hours
Tuesdays to Saturdays 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.,
Sundays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Closed on Mondays (except Easter
Monday and Whit Monday), on
December 25th and on January 1st
admIssIoN
Individuals: €5
Groups of 15 or more and
concessions: €3.75
Under 19s: free; under 26s: €1
GuIded tours
Maximum 20 per guide
Duration: approx. 1hr 30min.
Price per guide: €65 (Mon-Fri)
€85 (Sat-Sun) – school groups €65
reservatIoNs
info@huisvanalijn.be
T +32 (0)9 269 23 50

Dr Guislain Museum
The History of Psychiatry and Outsider Art
woodmen, simpletons, lunatics… all words used to describe the mentally ill. what does
suffering from black bile mean? how was a hysterical woman treated? down the ages,
insanity has been treated with a mixture of magic and religion, constraint and care,
control and science. dr jozef Guislain organized modern psychiatry in Ghent in the 19th
century. the former Guislain hospice, Belgium’s first psychiatric hospital (1857), now
houses the dr Guislain museum.
This is where my house lives*
Variations on living and madness
16.06 – 16.09.2012
The great psychiatric institution, which used to be
seen as the answer to madness, has rather fallen into
oblivion. In 2009 Christopher Payne caused a stir with
his series of photographs entitled Asylum. Inside the
Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, about abandoned
psychiatric institutions in the United States of
America. In J’ai perdu ma tête, Peter Granser gives
an account of his visit to a psychiatric institution in
Normandy. Eddo Hartmann revisits the house of his
childhood. With Scale 1:200, a triptych, the Dutch artist
Juul Sadée takes us into the world of artist and architect
Robert Garcet (1912-2001), who designed a strange
structure packed with symbolism: the Eben-Ezer Tower.
*Wouter De Ryck, nephew of visual artist Anne-Mie van
Kerkhoven
↑ Eric De Volder, After the meal, crayon, 2003
↖ Christopher Payne, Buffalo State Hospital, New York
← Christopher Payne, Patient ward, Buffalo State
Hospital, New York
dr GuIslaIN museum
dr GuIslaIN museum
Jozef Guislainstraat 43, BE-9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 216 35 95
F +32 (0)9 216 35 35
info@museumdrguislain.be
www.museumdrguislain.be
Wheelchair access
Tram 1: Jozef Guislainstraat stop
opeNING hours
Tuesdays to Fridays 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays 1-5 p.m.
Closed on Mondays and on December
24th, 25th, 31st and January 1st
admIssIoN
Individuals: €6
Groups of 15 or more and
concessions: €4
Under 12s: free; under 26s: €1
GuIded tours
Maximum 20 per guide
Duration: approx. 1hr 15min.
Price per guide: €60
school groups €30
guided tour in other languages
(F, D, E, SP) €60
reservatIoNs
info@museumdrguislain.be
T +32 (0)9 216 35 95
Nervous Women
Two centuries of women and their psychiatrists
13.10.2012 – 26.05.2013
It seems that while in the nineteenth century women
went mad because of a lack of behavioural freedom, at the
beginning of the twenty-first century some women go to
pieces because of an excess of freedom. Nervous Women
takes eight case studies to illustrate the remarkable evolution
in society and psychiatry: how girls and women – healthy
and sick – lived from 1800 to 2000, how syndromes like
hysteria are very much phenomena of their time, how our
age elicits new forms of disturbed behaviour. Why was kleptomania
regarded as typically female for so long? How did
the – then still by definition male – psychiatrist view women
patients around 1900? Why are 75% of women diagnosed
as suffering from borderline personality disorder?
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6 s.m.a.K.
TRACK, 12.05…16.09.2012 © S.M.A.K.
S.M.A.K.
dynamic and idiosyncratic, that’s the municipal museum of contemporary
art, s.m.a.K. for short. the permanent collection of important works by
artists from home and abroad interacts with original, often daring temporary
exhibitions, particularly one-man shows by established and budding
artists. s.m.a.K. is a place for experimentation and innovation, but it also
has an eye for the public space.
TRACK
12.05 – 16.09.2012
A unique art experience,
TRACK provides unexpected
and enriching encounters with
the city of Ghent, its history
and its people. Thirty-five international
artists were invited
to create new work which is
rooted in Ghent and which
also links local and universal
themes.
ELECTRifiED iii
THE RESPoNSiVE
CiTy
01.09 – 04.11.2012
Media artists uncover
hidden layers of the city and
visitors can become part of an
invisible film with the city as
the set.
in cooperation with Vooruit
tracK
dates aNd opeNING tImes
from 12.05 to 16.09.2012
- TRACK locations accessible with
TRACK PASS: Tuesdays to Sundays
12-18.00 hrs
The manned locations are closed
on Mondays.
- S.M.A.K.: Tuesdays to Sundays
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Thursdays 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Closed on Mondays
admIssIoN
Individuals: €10
Groups of 15 or more and
concessions: €7
under 12s: free
reservatIoNs aNd Group
pacKaGes
www.track.be or
Gentinfo: +32 (0)9 210 10 10
Mondays to Saturdays 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.
A S.M.A.K. initiative in association
with the City of Ghent and the Flemish
Community
Jordan Wolfson
06.12.2012 – 17.03.2013
The films, videos and installations
Jordan Wolfson (°1980,
New York) makes propose art
as a site with the potential
for personal experience and
communication – of doubts,
expectations and wonder. His
works display a generous conceptual
and formal elegance
that leaves itself open to the
viewer’s emotional and interpretative
response.
s.m.a.K.
Citadelpark – BE-9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 240 76 01
info@smak.be
www.smak.be
Wheelchair access
Tram 1: Van Nassaustraat stop
opeNING hours
Tuesdays to Sundays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays (except Easter
Monday and Whit Monday), on
December 24th, 25th, 31st and on
January 1st
admIssIoN
Individuals: €6
Groups of 15 or more and
concessions: €4.5
under 19s: free; under 26s: €1
GuIded tours
Maximum 20 per guide
Duration: approx. 1hr 30min.
Price per guide: €75
the BrIdGe
Combined visit to S.M.A.K. and MSK
Duration: 2 hours
Price per guide: €100, max. 20 people
per group. Excluding admission
tickets, which must be purchased at
both museums.
Combination ticket (€6 p.p.) available
for groups of min.15 people
reservatIoNs
BOEKjeBEZOEK
boekjebezoek@gent.be
T +32 (0)9 267 14 66
Joachim Koester
06.12.2012 – 17.03.2013
In his video work Joachim
Koester (°1962, Copenhagen)
uses montage, archiving and
storytelling to shed light on
historical events. In recent
years he has traced the invisible
and forgotten histories of
transgression, exploring the
legacies and remains of occult
movements, psychedelic experiments
and the like.

MSK – Museum of fine Arts
↑ Georges Vantongerloo, Study No. III, 1920 © MSK Gent
↖ Jacob Jordaens, Studies of Abraham Grapheus’ head,
ca. 1620-1621 © MSK Gent
← Théo Van Rysselberghe, The Reading by Emile
Verhaeren, 1903 © MSK Gent
the museum of fine arts in Ghent houses an enviable collection of old masters,
including two panels by hieronymus Bosch, important works by the flemish
primitives and Netherlandish art from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
the collections from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are of international
repute. as well as masterpieces by théodore Géricault and the Barbizon artists,
the museum provides an overview of modern art from romanticism to surrealism,
including world-famous works.
Belgian Modernism
Belgian abstract art and Europe
(1912-1930)
02.03 – 30.06.2013
In this first major retrospective exhibition
of Belgian modernism around 1920 for more
than twenty years, Belgium’s historical avantgarde
will be illustrated through visual and
applied art, architecture, typography, photography,
films, music, literature and theatre. Belgian
protagonists like Marthe Donas, Jozef Peeters,
Jules Schmalzigaug, Victor Servranckx and
Georges Vantongerloo will be juxtaposed with
foreign contemporaries like Alexander Archipenko,
Piet Mondrian, Lászlo Moholy-Nagy
and Theo van Doesburg. A number of large
international museums are loaning work for
this exhibition.
Three dossier exhibitions
29.09 – 16.12.2012
museum of fINe arts 7
museum of fINe arts
Citadelpark, BE-9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 240 07 00
F +32 (0)9 240 07 90
museum.msk@gent.be
www.mskgent.be
Wheelchair access
Tram 1: Van Nassaustraat stop
opeNING hours
Tuesdays to Sundays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays (except Easter
Monday and Whit Monday), on December
24th, 25th, 31st and on January 1st
admIssIoN
Individuals: €5
Groups of 15 or more and
concessions: €3.75
Under 19s: free; under 26s: €1
Belgian Modernism
Individuals: €9
Groups of 15 or more and
concessions: €6.5
Under 19s: free; under 26s: €1
GuIded tours
Maximum 20 per guide
Duration: approx. 1hr 30min.
Price per guide: €75
the BrIdGe
Combined visit to MSK and S.M.A.K.
Duration: 2 hours
Price per guide: €100, max. 20 people
per group. Excluding admission
tickets, which must be purchased at
both museums.
Combination ticket (€6 p.p.) available
for groups of min.15 people
reservatIoNs
BOEKjeBEZOEK
boekjebezoek@gent.be
T +32 (0)9 267 14 66
Three dossier exhibitions highlight specific aspects of the
MSK’s collection.
Abraham Grapheus, Jacob Jordaens’ artist’s model takes
a look at the seventeenth-century Antwerp artist Grapheus, who
went down in history as the model for paintings by (among others)
Jacob Jordaens.
A tribute is also paid to Théo Van Rysselberghe, who was born
in Ghent 150 years ago. The museum has many of his paintings,
drawings, graphic works and books, which it is showing together
for the first time.
The Art of Giving examines the role gifts and legacies have
played in the MSK’s collection over the years. Gifted works by
Hieronymus Bosch, Frans Hals, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacopo Tintoretto, George Minne
and Anthony van Dyck give the museum international kudos.

8 mIat
↑ Women at work at the Gilliot & C° tile factory,
1914 © Mario Baeck collection
↑ Milk cart in the WorldWideWork exhibition © MIAT
→ flemish interior © Evy Raes
MiAT
mIat is a vibrant museum, housed in a fine industrial building. It organizes
exhibitions, workshops, museum games, film sundays, matinées and soirées... and the
thread running through them all is industry, labour and textiles. learn all about the
industrial society and marvel at the stories told by textile workers. admire the mule
jenny spinning machine and the oldest extant twine mill in north-west europe, two of
the collection’s showpieces.
floor and wall tiles
Belgium’s tile industry from art nouveau
to the 1970s
26.10.2012 – 10.03.2013
In the twentieth century Belgian tile companies
enjoyed fame at home and abroad with
companies like Boch Frères, Gilliot and Maison
Helman setting the tone. The floor and wall
tile owed its success to splendid art-nouveau
realizations, from ingenious geometric patterns
and decorative flowers to exquisite, colourful tile
tableaux. They were designed and customized by
scenery workshops or leading artists to decorate
façades, interiors, homes and businesses. As well
as being able to admire magnificent tile panels,
you will also learn about the production process
and working conditions in tile factories.
Power to the People
100 years of electricity
27.04 – 29.09.2013
A hundred years ago electricity was not a
feature of everyday life. This changed at the
beginning of the twentieth century, a period that
heralded an unprecedented belief in progress and
innovation.
The 1913 Ghent World Fair was a veritable ode
to electricity. Belgium’s most important electricity
companies were represented in the Palais des
Lumières where thousands of little bulbs dazzled
in an unparalleled light show.
Power to the People provides a cocksure
view of the arrival of electricity as a new form of
energy. What effect did this have on our social
and working lives? Life-size photographs of traditional
Flemish interiors illustrate the theme.
mIat
Minnemeers 9, BE-9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 269 42 20
F +32 (0)9 233 07 39
publiekswerking.miat@gent.be
www.miat.gent.be
Wheelchair access
Tram 1: Korenmarkt stop
opeNING hours
Tuesdays to Sundays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays (except Easter
Monday and Whit Monday), on December
24th, 25th, 31st and on January 1st
admIssIoN
Individuals: €5
Groups of 15 or more and
concessions: €3.75
Under 19s: free; under 26s: €1
GuIded tours
Maximum 25 per guide
Duration: 1hr 30min. to 2 hours
Price per guide: €80
school groups €70
reservatIoNs
publiekswerking.miat@gent.be
T +32 (0)9 269 42 20
WorldWideWork
The home and working
lives of six generations
PERMANENT
The industrial society
brings paid holiday, leisure and
increasing consumption.

↑ The World of Kina, the Garden – Spider Room
© The World of Kina
↗ The World of Kina, the House – View of the entrance
hall © Hans De Greve
→ The World of Kina, the House – Zapland
© The World of Kina
The World of Kina
discovering and experiencing – that’s what museums are all about and
nowhere more so than the world of Kina! did you know that some shells
weigh almost 200 kilos? find out how a mammoth’s thighbone compares
to your own. look down at the floor and you’ll see scores of fossils. hug
a mushroom. marvel at the clever cobwebs and the busy bees... at the
world of Kina you’ll discover far more than you had bargained for!
The House
PERMANENT
The monumental House is part of St Peter’s Abbey and
a fun sort of place to get lost in! Its eccentric collection
contains something for everyone. Shells, corals, skeletons,
birds... and under your feet a floor of Jurassic
limestone, rich in fossils.
With your head spinning after so many extraordinary
sights, the Ghent and Charles V sound and light show
is the perfect chance to catch your breath. It tells the
story of how the people of Ghent came to be known as
‘Noose Wearers’.
The Garden
PERMANENT
the world of KINa 9
the house
Sint-Pietersplein 14, BE-9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 244 73 73
F +32 (0)9 244 73 74
kinahuis@gent.be
www.dewereldvankina.be
Wheelchair access
Tram 1: Verlorenkost stop
the GardeN
Berouw 55, BE-9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 225 05 42
F +32 (0)9 234 30 56
kinatuin@gent.be
www.dewereldvankina.be
Wheelchair access
Tram 1: Gravensteen stop
Tram 4: Spaarstraat stop
opeNING hours
Mondays to Fridays 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sundays and public holidays
2 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.
Closed on Saturdays, December 25th &
26th and January 1st & 2nd
admIssIoN
Individuals: €2.5
Groups of 15 or more and
concessions: €1.25
School groups: Ghent schools free
non-Ghent schools €0.50 per pupil
Under 12s: free; under 26s: €1.25
GuIded tours
Maximum 25 per guide
Duration: 1hr 30min.
for school groups approx. 1 hour
Price per guide: €25
free for school groups
reservatIoNs
The World of Kina: the House
kinahuis@gent.be
T +32 (0)9 244 73 75
The World of Kina: the Garden
kinatuin@gent.be
T +32 (0)9 225 05 42
To walk through the gate into the garden is to enter
another world. First up is a magnificent tree that draws
everyone’s attention. With all the greenery and a
pond, it’s hard to believe you are actually in a densely
populated area. And then suddenly you find yourself
in a jaw-dropping exhibition about spiders with the collection
of living large-bodied spiders as the highlight.
The hive is always… well, a hive of activity. It may look
chaotic, but there is a system in it, as you’ll find out
in The Honeybee exhibition. The mushrooms have a
couple of odd bods in the family, which you’ll certainly
want to see.

10 desIGN museum GeNt
Design museum Gent
a day in Ghent is not complete without a visit to the design museum
Gent. the only one of its kind in flanders, the museum specializes in
twentieth-century and contemporary design. It has one of the most beautiful
art-nouveau collections in the country and also mounts interesting
temporary exhibitions. the intriguing designer collection is presented in a
modern, light and airy building.
Pieter De Bruyne Retrospective
(1931-1987)
Pioneer of the postmodern
07.07 – 21.10.2012
Pieter De Bruyne graduated in interior design
from Sint-Lucas Brussels in 1953. In 1961 he achieved
international recognition at the Cantù International
Furniture Competition (Italy).
Typifying his early work is the belief that furniture
should not just be aesthetically pleasing but also
marketable and affordable.
By the late 1970s Belgium’s design industry was in
the doldrums. Furniture manufacturers that refused
to move on from functionalism went out of business.
Fortunately exceptions like Pieter De Bruyne prove
the rule. He was no longer working for industry but
designing one-off pieces to commission. They were
true milestones.
↑ Staircase Design museum Gent
© Design museum Gent
← Pieter De Bruyne, Chantilly Chest, 1975
© Design museum Gent
Shiro Kuramata
24.11.2012 – 24.02.2013
The legendary Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata
(1943-1991) designed approximately 180 items of furniture
and other objects. In his heyday in the 1980s he is
said to have produced a design a day.
His designs are a testimony to his craftsmanship
and eye for detail. They are typical of the creative
dynamism of post-war Japan: technologically
advanced, oozing re-found self-confidence and inspired
by pop art. Kuramata was also open to other Western
influences: the minimalism of Dan Flavin and Donald
Judd, Duchamp’s readymades and Ettore Sottsass’ love
of bright colour. His furniture designs are poetic, light
and seemingly transparent. He was alert to new technologies
and previously unused materials. Kuramata
loved the effect of surprise.
desIGN museum GeNt
Jan Breydelstraat 5, BE-9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 267 99 99
F +32 (0)9 224 45 22
museum.design@gent.be
www.designmuseumgent.be
Partial wheelchair access
Tram 1 or 4: Gravensteen stop
opeNING hours
Tuesdays to Sundays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays (except Easter
Monday and Whit Monday), on December
24th, 25th, 31st and on January 1st
admIssIoN
Individuals: €5
Groups of 15 or more and
concessions: €3.75
Under 19s: free; under 26s: €1
GuIded tours
Maximum 20 per guide
Duration: 1hr 30min.
For school groups approx.
1hr 30min. – 2 hours
Price per guide: €60
groups from secondary schools and
institutes of higher education: €60
Nursery and primary school groups
free
reservatIoNs
museum.design@gent.be
T +32 (0)9 267 99 99

↑ façade of the Vooruit festival hall,
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat, Ghent, September 1958
© Amsab Institute of Social History
↖ façade of the Tbilisi Hotel Abkhazeti © Filip Berte
← Portus Ganda © Carl De Keyzer
STAM – Ghent City Museum
stam, the city museum on the Bijloke, provides the perfect introduction
to Ghent. stam’s permanent circuit tells the story of the city. Yesterday,
today and tomorrow converge to give visitors a feel for what exactly it is
that makes Ghent Ghent. the temporary exhibitions take a more universal
approach and look at what makes a city a city. stam’s showpiece? Ghent
itself, the living city.
filip Berte / The Graveyard
Cities on the Edge
17.05 – 04.11.2012
For his The Graveyard installation,
architect and visual artist Filip Berte
visited four cities: Tbilisi (Georgia),
Chisinau (Moldova), Melilla (Spanish
enclave in Morocco) and Brussels. Each of
these places is on the geographical margins
of Europe or represents social margins
within the European Union. Berte presents
four penetrating, personal city portraits
with soundtracks by sound artist Ruben
Nachtergaele.
in cooperation with CAMPO
VooRUiT ’13 - ’13
01.05 – 03.11.2013
The Vooruit festival hall opened in 1913. For many
decades it was a cultural bastion of Ghent’s socialist
movement. In 1982 it was converted into an independent
socio-cultural centre which became the internationally
acclaimed Vooruit arts centre.
100 years of festival hall and 30 years of arts centre
have to be celebrated! So Vooruit is making 2013 a
festive year and STAM is contributing by mounting an
exhibition entitled VOORUIT ‘13 -’13 about the Vooruit
building’s intriguing history, its significance for Ghent
and the many activities that have taken place there
over the last century.
in cooperation with UGent, Amsab-ISG, Province of East
Flanders and Vooruit
stam – GheNt cItY museum
stam – GheNt cItY museum
Bijlokesite
Godshuizenlaan 2, BE-9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 267 14 00
F +32 (0)9 267 14 98
stam@gent.be
www.stamgent.be
Wheelchair access
Tram 1: Van Nassaustraat or
Verlorenkost stop
Tram 4 or 24: Bijlokehof stop
opeNING hours
Tuesdays to Sundays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays (except Easter
Monday and Whit Monday), on
December 24th, 25th and 31st and on
January 1st
admIssIoN
Individuals: €6
Groups of 15 or more and
concessions: €4.50
Under 19s: free; under 26s: €1
GuIded tours
Maximum 20 per guide
Duration: approx. 1hr 30min.
Price per guide: €75
reservatIoNs
BOEKjeBEZOEK
boekjebezoek@gent.be
T +32 (0)9 267 14 66
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comBINed vIsIts
Combine your STAM visit with a guided
walk or boat trip in/to the city (information
at www.stamgent.be) or with
a VOORUIT100 activity (information at
www.vooruit.be).
The story of Ghent
PERMANENT
STAM’s permanent trail,
which leads through the former
Bijloke Abbey, peels away the
city’s many layers to reveal the
story of Ghent, from its earliest
beginnings to the present
day. The ambulatory links the
rooms off it like a time-line. The
multimedia allow you to leaf
through the past. Or you can sit
down on a bench and listen to
stories about Ghent. A series of
photographs by Carl De Keyzer
shows the city from a contemporary
perspective.

Robert Capa © International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos / Reporters
12 st peter’s aBBeY
↑ Golf-Juan.France. August 1948.
Pablo Picasso and francoise Gilot
↗ Boers ready for fire-fighting duty,
Natal front, January 1900, photograph:
Van Hoepen, Pretoria
→ © Bieke Depoorter
St Peter’s Abbey
st peter’s abbey is one of Ghent’s foremost monuments. concealed behind its
imposing walls is a surprisingly large garden with a vineyard, herb garden, fruit
trees and ruins. the buildings you see today date from the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, the impressive refectory from the middle ages. st peter’s
abbey presents historio-cultural, literary and photographic exhibitions at
national and international level.
i am about to
call it a Day
Bieke Depoorter
25.05 – 23.09.2012
Bieke Depoorter is a young
Ghent photographer who graduated
from the KASK academy
in 2009 and immediately won
the Magnum Expression Award.
In recent years she travelled
uninhibited through Russia and
America. Chance encounters
determined where she spent
the night. The openness with
which she was received and the
intimacy shared with her, produced
some intriguing images.
Her series of photographs from
America is a work in progress.
Robert Capa
Retrospective
12.10 – 02.12.2012
Robert Capa is one of the
biggest names in twentiethcentury
documentary photography.
The exhibition presents
a selection of photographs
from, for instance, the Spanish
Civil War and the Second World
War, and portraits of Hemingway,
Picasso and others.
Unknown images,
Powerful Stories
Belgians at war
16.11.2012 – 21.04.2013
Belgium has been involved
in many wars in its 180-year
history. Soldiers, volunteers,
doctors, journalists and writers
have recorded their experiences
in millions of clichés.
Photography is about the same
age as Belgium and it is the
thread that runs through this
exhibition. With the aid of the
latest IT techniques, an expert
takes visitors off into the harsh
reality. They soon discover that
the story behind the image is
not at all what it first seemed.
st peter’s aBBeY
Sint-Pietersplein 9, BE-9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 243 97 30
F +32 (0)9 243 97 34
sintpietersabdij@gent.be
www.sintpietersabdijgent.be
Wheelchair access (except Alison)
Tram 1: Verlorenkost stop
opeNING hours
Tuesdays to Sundays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays (except Easter
Monday and Whit Monday), on December
24th, 25th, 31st and on January 1st
admIssIoN
Individuals: €5
Groups of 15 or more and concessions:
€3.75
Under 19s: free; under 26s: €1
Unknown images
Individuals: €9
Groups of 15 or more and concessions:
€6.75
Under 19s: free; under 26s: €4
Alison ‘movie guide’ + visit to the
abbey and all exhibitions
€3 on top of the admission fee
GuIded tours
Maximum 20 per guide
school groups: per class
Duration: approx. 1hr 30min.
Price per guide: €80
reservatIoNs
BOEKjeBEZOEK
boekjebezoek@gent.be
T +32 (0)9 267 14 66
Alison
‘movie guide’
PERMANENT
Monk Alison, the bookkeeper
at St Peter’s Abbey, is
a historical figure (1753-1823).
He takes you with him through
the ancient abbey buildings on
a virtual journey through time,
gradually revealing the secrets
of the abbey and its residents.

VooRUiT100
fRoM MAy 2013
In 2013 the Vooruit building will celebrate 100 years in Sint-Pieters-
nieuwstraat. While STAM mounts an exhibition, Vooruit will stage a centenary
celebration. Artists will work with historic material or look radically to the
future. Vooruit will also become a temporary museum where heritage is brought
to life. Who knows, maybe beer will be drunk again, a tavern opened or a billiards
competition held. And where will Vooruit go over the next 100 years?
Set off into the city with a smartphone app which uncovers traces of Vooruit’s
DNA in Ghent. It turns out that the past has surprising links with the present and
with your own life.
An initiative of Vooruit arts centre in cooperation with UGent, Amsab – ISG,
STAM, Province of East Flanders and IBBT
Ghent
Museum pass
Free admission to Ghent’s main
museums and monuments, combined
with free use of the city’s tram
and bus network. Price: 20 euros,
valid for three days. Available from
the Tourist Information Office, participating
museums, hotels and De
Lijn sales points.
Museum Pass becomes
City Card
In the autumn of 2012 the
Museum Pass will become a digital
City Card representing even better
value for cultural tourists.
Price: 25 euros for 2 days – 30 euros
for 3 days.
Museum Night 2011, S.M.A.K. © Raf Van de Ven
Museum night
29.11.2012, 6 p.m. – 1 a.m.
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tIps
Use tram line 1 on Museum Night.
After-party at S.M.A.K. from 23.00 hrs
INfo
www.gent.be/museumnacht
Ghent’s museums invariably pull out all the stops for
Museum Night. The House of Alijn, STAM, S.M.A.K.,
Museum of Fine Arts , MIAT, The World of Kina, Design
museum Gent, Dr Guislain Museum and St Peter’s Abbey
are planning an atmospheric programme and a night to
remember…
The Century of
Progress.
Ghent 1913 – 2013
Imbued with the spirit of the age
and intoxicated with its economic
success, in 1913 Ghent organized
a world fair. Other cities like Brussels,
Liège and Antwerp had already
done this, but on a smaller, less
dazzling scale. While the threat of
war hanging over Europe increased,
Ghent convened a gigantic celebration,
which brought visitors flocking
to the city. For Ghent this was the
real start of the twentieth century,
characterized by an unbridled belief
in progress.
100 years later Ghent’s cultural
institutions look back at this world
fair and the century that followed.
The programme features (among
other things) exhibitions, publications
and a documentary, promising
a packed cultural year with a wide
appeal.
www.gent.be/wereldexpo2013

© City of Ghent – Communications Department
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Historische Huizen Gent (Historical
Houses Ghent)
St Bavo’s Abbey
Voorhoutkaai 43, BE-9000 Gent
INformatIoN
+32 (0)9 243 97 30
sintpietersabdij@gent.be
Download the app from:
www.sintpietersabdijgent.be
Two newly-restored
town houses *
What is now the Arnold Vander Haeghen Museum in Veldstraat
dates from around 1746. It was purchased by Joos Clemmen, one of
Ghent’s first cotton barons, in 1771. He had the façade completed and
lavishly decorated. Today highlights include the Chinese Salon and a classical
warehouse in the garden, on the bank of the River Leie/Lys. In the
museum building you can also visit the ‘Kabinet Maeterlinck’, the reconstructed
study of the Ghent Nobel Prize Winner for Literature.
Heads of state from all over Europe have passed through the doors of
the eighteenth-century Hotel d’Hane Steenhuyse, one of the city’s finest
patrician houses. The salons, the impressive vestibule and the majestic
honorary staircase reflect the grandeur of society life.
GuIded tours
INformatIoN aNd
reservatIoNs
Groups and schools:
On Thursdays
Book through BOEKjeBEZOEK:
boekjebezoek@gent.be
+32 (0)9 267 14 66
Individual visitors:
On Fridays and Saturdays (14.30 hrs)
Book through Uitbureau:
tickets@uitbureau.be
+32 (0)9 233 77 88
www.uitbureau.be
*realized as part of the european project Interreg Iva 2 seas – shapING 24. www.shaping24.eu
St Bavo’s Abbey in 3D *
fRoM SEPTEMBER 2012
A virtual guided tour through the history of St Bavo’s
Abbey, from the seventh century to the present day. Meet
Amandus, who founded the abbey when the Normans were in
Ghent. Stroll round the dismantled Romanesque and late-
Gothic abbey church and see how people lived in the abbey
down the centuries. Discover how in 1540 St Bavo’s Abbey
became part of Spaniards’ Castle, built by Charles V, and how
the imposing abbey church was demolished. A gripping
experience on a historic site!
INformatIoN
www.visitgent.be
http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be
Restoration of the
Adoration of the
Mystic Lamb
Work to restore the Adoration of the
Mystic Lamb by the Van Eyck brothers
will begin in the autumn of 2012. It will
be carried out over a five-year period. At
the Museum of Fine Arts you will be able
to see the restorers at work behind glass.
At the Carmelites Convent you will learn
more about the restoration. STAM reveals
the story behind the stolen side panel
‘The Just Judges’. The Mystic Lamb will
still be on show in St Bavo’s Cathedral.
Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, 1432 © Lukas – Art in Flanders vzw, photograph: Hugo Maertens

Ghent online
www.visitgent.be is a mine
of information about Ghent.
This website tells you everything
you need to know about
museums, sights, restaurants,
places to stay, events, outings,
etc. You can even compile,
download and print your very
own brochure.
Need advice? The Tourist
Information Office will be glad
to help.
Staying in Ghent
It takes a while before you
see everything there is to see
in Ghent, so why not stay the
night? At www.visitgent.be
you’ll find a list of hotels and
B&Bs and you can book online
too. At www.uitingent.be
there’s an events calendar to
help you plan your evening.
out and about in Ghent
Tourist information
office
New offices
oude vismijn (near Gravensteen)
sint-veerleplein 5, Be-9000 Gent
t +32 (0)9 266 56 60
f +32 (0)9 266 56 73
visit@gent.be – www.visitgent.be
open daily
march 15th – october 14th:
9.30 am – 6.30 pm
october 15th – march 14th:
9.30 am – 4.30 pm
closed on december 25th
and january 1st
© Frederik Vercruysse for SAQ Architects
Getting round the city
on foot
Follow the pedestrian signposts.
By tram or bus
The map on page 2 gives the
main tram and bus lines (valid
from November 2012, after
completion of renovation work).
Further information is available
from the Tourist Information
Office, de Lijn shops and at
www.delijn.be.
By coach
Download the free
brochure Ghent by coach at
www.visitgent.be.
Ghent has a brand-new tourist Information
office in the renovated old fish market, a glass
construction affording a wonderful view of the
city and the water. Information about Ghent, the
other flemish cities of art and the province of
east flanders is available day and night. In the
centre of the office is a multimedia data touch
table. the facilities are also designed for those
with a mobility or visual impairment. outside
opening hours (provided the old fish market is
accessible) information is projected onto the
glass wall and accessed using the touch
technology.
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follow the guide!
Gandante
T +32 (0)479 51 52 42
info@gandante.be
www.gandante.be
Ghent authentic
T +32 (0)498 10 99 61
info@ghent-authentic.com
www.ghent-authentic.com
Ghent Guides
T +32 (0)9 233 07 72
F +32 (0)9 233 08 65
info@gentsegidsen.be
www.gentsegidsen.be
vizit
T +32 (0)9 233 76 89
F +32 (0)9 225 23 19
info@vizit.be
www.vizit.be/gent.html
BoeKjeBezoeK
T +32 (0)9 267 14 66
F +32 (0)9 267 14 98
boekjebezoek@gent.be
Explore Ghent from
the water
Boat in Gent
T +32 (0)478 63 36 30
F +32 (0)9 228 62 63
info@boatingent.be
www.boatingent.be
de Bootjes van Gent
rederij dewaele
T +32 (0)9 229 17 16
T/F +32 (0)9 228 62 63
info@debootjesvangent.be
www.debootjesvangent.be
Gent watertoerist
T +32 (0)9 269 08 69
F +32 (0)9 231 54 84
info@gent-watertoerist.be
www.gent-watertoerist.be
rederij de Gentenaer
T +32 (0)473 48 10 36
F +32 (0)9 231 54 84
info@rederijdegentenaer.be
www.rederijdegentenaer.be

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