Holidays at the museum

House of Alijn

The sound game - walking tour for families

Can you hear it too? The city is full of sounds! Hendrik and Poes, the museum’s ghosts, take you on a tour of Ghent. During an active tour, you will guess, make, look for and draw sounds from daily life. Warm up your voice, loosen your muscles and complete all the challenges. Can you crack the code? At the end of the walking tour, you will receive a surprise!

S.M.A.K.

• Discovery tour with children | Looking at art with children is often wonderfully open-minded. The new voyage of discovery immerses you and your little adventurers in the magical world of Joris Van de Moortel; full of music, a ship and silly characters.
• S.M.A.K. Bingo (5+) | Discover our collection exhibitions in a playful way. Each bingo card contains drawings of a detail of a work of art from the exhibitions. The first person to get three in a row gets to shout loudly in the museum once!
• Krokuskriebels - Workshop Floep Gloep Sloep (8+) | Sail along with a sloop full of musical instruments. Build your own ship with your family, make up a new song and discover a new world. Your mini-sloop will become part of the artwork in the museum!

GUM & Botanical Garden

Fun at the museum

Immerse yourself in the world of scientists with the family tour “Traveling in GUM,” The Wunderkammer of TRUTH and the DOUBT tour. Enjoy unique tours and exhibitions in the Botanical Garden, such as 'Botany for Gourmets,' a journey of discovery into the plants that changed the world or a tour in Ghent dialect. For the youngest visitors there is the exciting quest 'Treasures of Vlieg (Fly)', where they travel around the world and make delightful discoveries in our green science gem.

MSK

Explore 600 years of art

The MSK has an impressive collection. The revised presentation fills no fewer than 40 galleries and displays the full diversity of the museum collection, exploring new themes and exhibiting dozens of works that have never been shown before, all arranged along a route that is guaranteed to excite and surprise.

• Audio guide for children
• Sensory basket
• Schoonvolk! audio guide

STAM

Children's trail through 'The story of Ghent'

Feel free to touch! A fun children's trail that leads through every room in the museum. Children become merchants, craftspeople, architects or city trippers and participate in city life. They sell cloth, make coats of arms, face façades and work out routes.

Museum of Industry

• Tinker away in the Tinker Studio
• Make your own Minizine at the printing department
• Weave along, card some wool or twine a thread at the textile department

Historical Houses Ghent

• Castle of the Counts: Comedy audioguide | from 8 years onwards | Discover the Gravensteen with a fun audio guide by comedian Wouter Deprez
• Castle of the Counts: Little Guide | 3 to 8 years 
• Belfry: Little Guide | 3 to 8 years

Museum Dr. Guislain

A home of one's own

Writer Erwin Mortier returns to his former workplace after 30 years and once again delves into the depots of the Museum Dr. Guislain.

Thursday Late

The Ghent Museums open their doors on the first Thursday of the month. Be sure to drop by before 10 pm!