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City Museum Ghent (STAM)
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GENERAL Ghent (Home) Introducing Ghent History SIGHTSEEING Medieval Ghent Museums The Mystic Lamb USEFUL INFO City Map Hotels Official web site of the city of Ghent
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STAM – Ghent City Museum Bijlokesite Godshuizenlaan 2 B-9000 Ghent
Tel: + 32 9 269 87 90 Fax: + 32 9 233 07 09 E-mail: stam@gent.be
Ghent as the showpiece From October 9th 2010, STAM will provide the perfect introduction to Ghent, which is in fact the museum’s showpiece. STAM will evoke the memory of the city, but also show what it is that makes Ghent the ‘happening’ sort of place it is today. We will even be given a glimpse of the future.
The story of the city
STAM will open its doors following restoration of the magnificent Bijloke Abbey and the addition of a new reception building. The story of the city will be illustrated by means of well-chosen items from the extensive Ghent collection. The abbey’s ambulatory will follow a chronological trail, the rooms off it bringing the successive periods into view. Multimedia applications will take visitors on a journey through time along Ghent’s streets, squares, alleyways and neighbourhoods, peeling away the city’s many layers as it goes. He past is the starting point but not the end point, for STAM will look at the present form the past and make a projection about the future. The setting may be historical but the approach is very ‘now’, just like Ghent in fact!
the Bijloke site STAM is located on the Bijloke site. This green oasis close to the city centre is a splendid cultural haven on the banks of the River Leie. The permanent exhibition circuit will be housed in the 14th-century Bijloke Abbey. It has one of the finest mediaeval refectories in Western Europe, with unique pre-Van Eyck murals. Temporary exhibitions and other projects will be organised in the adjoining monastery buildings.
Temporary exhibitions In addition to the permanent display, STAM will also mount temporary exhibitions related to topical matters which explore the universal concept of ‘urbanity’ in greater depth.
entrance to the city STAM will be an open house – the perfect starting point for a day in Ghent. A broad path will be laid out from Ghent’s inner ring-road past the museum’s fine garden and pond to STAM. The new and contemporary reception building will be the entrance to the Bijloke site and in a certain sense to the whole city, since it will also include an information centre on cultural tourism in Ghent. From STAM it is a short and enjoyable route to the city centre, whether you go by boat or bike or on foot. You can start picking up the scent of the living city as you get closer.
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