- From June 6th until September 28th 2021
- With Koninklijke Roeivereniging Club Gent
- Image: jaren 1960, Archief Gent , foto: Henri De Jonghe
The Watersportbaan (“Water Sports Course”) cuts a shining swathe right through Ghent. It is the home base for Ghent’s Royal Rowing Club, the Koninklijke Roeivereniging Club Gent. Founded in 1871 by a few rowing enthusiasts, today it is a thriving sports association and, as one of the oldest in the country, a club that shares a rich history with the Watersportbaan and the city.
This mini exhibition celebrates 150 years of Club Gent and looks at how the association helped to shape the city. Living fragments of Ghent make their appearance in the museum, on the STAMsquare. The rowers delved into the club’s archives and collection and the museum compiled the results into a capsule exhibition: a perfect example of the coordination and cooperation that defines rowing.
When it reopened in December 2020, STAM unveiled STAMsquare, the square that varies in size and in what it contains and with a place for ‘The square kilometre’.
Come along to STAMsquare and discover the results of the first two instalments of the heritage project ‘The square kilometre’: Neuseplein and Brugse Poort.
STAM turned ten last year... time for a make-over for the permanent exhibition! Since the end of 2020 you can stroll through the new Story of Ghent.
STAM turned ten last year... time for a make-over for the permanent exhibition! Since the end of 2020 you can stroll through the new 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.
There was a time when Ghent owned 5,000 hectares of agricultural land. Today that figure is 1,800 hectares, mostly outside the city boundaries. The city in the countryside. What is the story behind that land? Where does its future lie?
