Conservatoire royal de Gand

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Le Conservatoire royal de Gand (en néerlandais : Koninklijk Conservatorium Gent) est une institution musicale à charte royale, fondée en 1835 sous Léopold Ier. Depuis 2011, l'Académie royale des beaux-arts (KASK) et le Conservatoire royal constituent ensemble l'École des arts de la Haute École de Gand (Hogeschool Gent) . Le conservatoire fut fondé en 1835 par Martin-Joseph Mengal qui en fut directeur jusqu'en 1851.

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Zebrastraat

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Gentbrugge railway station

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International School Ghent

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Ghent University Museum

GUM & Botanical Garden, or the Ghent University Museum and its botanical garden, is a museum that uses academic heritage to illustrate how science works. Since its opening in 2020, the GUM has combined diverse scientific disciplines and shown how doubt and failure are part of the research process without emphasizing success stories. The GUM describes itself as a “Forum for Science, Doubt and Art” that also provides space for artistic research. In 2022-2023, PHALLUS. Norm & Form was the first major exhibition, followed by Wunderkammer of TRUTH in 2024-2025 and BORDERS in 2026-2027. The exhibitions explore relevant themes that stimulate the imagination, and every two years GUM hosts DARK WEEKends, an Art & Science Festival. Prof. Marjan Doom is the artistic and general director of GUM & Botanical Garden. She previously wrote the manifesto Museum of Doubt for Academia Press, which served as the basis for the current vision of the GUM. The scientific heritage collections of Ghent University comprise more than 400,000 objects from a wide range of disciplines. The Ghent University Museum is responsible for the management and sustainable preservation of these collections. The Botanical Garden houses a wide variety of plant collections spread across the outdoor garden and various greenhouses. In the autumn of 2020, the GUM and the Botanical Garden joined forces to operate as a single entity. GUM & Botanical Garden is located on the Ledeganck campus of Ghent University, within walking distance of the Citadel Park and the MSK and SMAK art museums. The façade of the building features a giant mural of several animal skeletons by artist ROA. In 2022, GUM & Botanical Garden, together with graphic designer PJOTR, received the bronze medal of the Henry van de Velde Award for Graphics and the museum gained a special commendation at the European Museum of the Year Award. GUM & Botanical Garden also received the Ultima Culture Prize for Movable and Intangible Cultural Heritage 2023. The juries of the latter two awards praised the museum for encouraging its visitors to ask questions and think critically. MuST was also mentioned positively for its significant influence on the museum's operations, which attracts many young visitors.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

The Museum of Fine Arts an art museum in Ghent, Belgium, is situated at the East side of the Citadelpark. The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks, dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Over 600 works can be found on display permanently, with the collection largely focusing on Flemish Art. It also houses several European—especially French—paintings, in addition to a large amount of sculptures. Next to its permanent collection the museum organises temporary exhibitions. Between March 2011 and January 2021, the museum conducted 41 exhibitions. The building was designed by city architect Charles van Rysselberghe around 1900. In 2007 the museum reopened after four years of restoration. The museum is a member of The Flemish Art Collection. This is a structural partnership joining the three main museums of fine arts in Flanders: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, the Groeninge Museum in Bruges and the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts. The museums’ collections have all been developed in a similar way and complement each other perfectly. Together, they offer a unique, representative overview of Flemish art from the 15th to the 20th century. As partners sharing the same responsibility in Belgian cultural heritage, the three museums exchange their expertise, they strive for a more sustainable, high quality management and international awareness of their collections, including works that are part of the world patrimony. In 2025, the museum and the city of Ghent rejected a claim for restitution from the heirs of Samuel Hartveld for a painting by Gaspar de Craye, Portrait of Bishop Triest,.

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Parmi les autres administrateurs figurent Émile Mathieu qui fut directeur à partir de 1898. Parmi les étudiants et professeurs notoires du conservatoire figurent François-Auguste Gevaert, qui étudia directement sous Mengal en 1841, Paul-Henri-Joseph Lebrun, qui y étudia et y devint professeur. Edouard Potjes y fut professeur de piano pendant 22 ans. En 1995, le Conservatoire royal était l'une des seize institutions belges fusionnées dans la Haute École de Gand. Il offre une formation à environ 480 étudiants, avec des programmes de maîtrise en théâtre et en musique. L'école attache traditionnellement une grande importance à la pratique de la musique de chambre. Depuis 2006, l'école organise une production d'opéra annuelle.

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Julien Paul Blitz Vina Bovy Dirk Brossé Jean-Baptiste Dubois François-Auguste Gevaert Lucien Goethals Norbert Goddaer Walter Hus Karel Miry Karel Paukert Annelies Van Parys Gabriël Verschraegen Lucien Posman