Bijlokesite
Godshuizenlaan 2
B-9000 Ghent
Opening hours from October 9th 2010
Tuesdays to Sundays 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays (except public holidays) and on December 24th, 25th, 31st and January 1st
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.
STAM – The story of the city
- from October 9th 2010 –
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!
Illuminated City. Day and night in Ghent
October 9th 2010 – May 2011
Light and the city, an intriguing combination! Light gives rhythm, sets the mood and directs the gaze, day and night. Nothing shines like it, nothing is so fragile. Objects, documents, scale-models, paintings, photographs and installations demonstrate how light and dark are part of everything we do and make. STAM’s first temporary exhibition reveals just how fundamental lights is to a city.
Liber Floridus. World views around 1100
Autumn 2011
900 years ago the world was different… Or is that just what we are led to believe? How did an eleventh-century man of learning view the world? We find answers to that question in the Liber Floridus, a world-famous encyclopaedia preserved in Ghent’s university library. In it Lambert of St Omer describes the cosmos. Four centuries before cartography came to its own, he was drawing maps. Pictures of the world – which was round, of course…
For further information and bookings of guided visits and grouptickets you can contact us.
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