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The Ghent City Museum (in Dutch "Stadsmuseum Gent", "STAM" in short) is a
museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...
in the
Belgian Belgian may refer to: * Something of, or related to, Belgium * Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent * Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German *Ancient Belgian language, an extinct languag ...
city of
Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...
. The museum exposes the city history and opened its doors on 9 October 2010. With respect to the collection that is shown, the history of this museum goes back to 1833, the year in which the ''Oudheidkundig Museum van de Bijloke'' in Ghent was founded. In 1928 the museum was situated in the ''Bijloke'' abbey - this led to the name ''Bijlokemuseum''. With the Bijloke collection as base and the Bijloke abbey and Bijloke monastery as buildings, the STAM functions as a modern-day heritage forum. Parts from other collections were added to the Bijloke collection. In connection to the historical buildings a new entrance building was constructed, designed by Ghent's city architect Koen Van Nieuwenhuyse. The main circuit of the Ghent City Museum serves as a museal and multimedial introduction to a visit to the city of Ghent. The past of the town is illustrated, but also today's life and the future are discussed. The temporary STAM collections describe the phenomenon of "urbanity" by means of contemporary issues. STAM refers the visitor to the city itself and to Ghent's cultural heritage. Chronologically structured rooms invite the visitors to explore various thematics. There is also a section dedicated to the ''
Ghent Altarpiece The ''Adoration of the Mystic Lamb'', also called the ''Ghent Altarpiece'' ( nl, De aanbidding van het Lam Gods), is a large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. It was begun around the mid-1420 ...
''. The Ghent City Museum was the winner of the 2012
Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...
Museum Prize.


Eyecatchers

Eyecatching parts of the museum are the sky picture of Ghent (300 m2 large) on which the visitors can walk around, and software with which Ghent can be viewed in detail and over the course of four centuries. In the Bijloke abbey that can be accessed through a passerelle in glass, the history of the city is told by means of three hundred objects. ''Views on Ghent'' is another multimedial application: a screen shows a city view from the year 1534, floor-plans from 1614 and 1912 and a sky picture from the present. There is also a room for temporary exhibitions. File:Gent STAM interactieve kaart 2008 12-10-2010 10-48-18.JPG, Interactive floor-plan File:Gent STAM Oud en Nieuw 12-10-2010 10-54-08.JPG, Projection of Gravensteen images File:Gent STAM 12-10-2010 12-57-48.JPG, One of the rooms File:Gent_STAM_Hugo_II_burggraaf_(+1232)_12-10-2010_11-33-10.JPG, Tomb of Hugo II, viscount of Ghent from 1227 until 1232, in the abbey dining room File:Gent STAM Oorkonde Lodewijk de Vrome 12-10-2010 11-25-16.JPG, Charter of
Louis the Pious Louis the Pious (german: Ludwig der Fromme; french: Louis le Pieux; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aqui ...
, given to the Sint-Baafs abbey, in which Louis confirms her immunity


Issue of Nazi-looted art

In 2022, an investigative article in ''De Standaard'' pointed out that Belgian museums still held art that had been looted during the
Nazi occupation German-occupied Europe refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly occupied and civil-occupied (including puppet governments) by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 ...
from Jews in Belgium. A painting by Gaspar de Crayer which had been seized from the collector Samuel Hartveld, was purchased by the Bijloke museum. The Bijloke Museum later transferred the painting to the
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent The Museum of Fine Arts ( nl, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, MSK) an art museum in Ghent, Belgium, is situated at the East side of the Citadelpark (near the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst). The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks ...
, where it remains today.


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External links

* http://www.stamgent.be {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghent City Museum Museums in Ghent History museums in Belgium City museums in Belgium Museums established in 2010 Ghent City Museum