Free museums in Ghent

The Heritage Centre | Sisters of Charity preserves and tells the history of the Sisters of Charity and their achievements in the field of education, health care, and welfare. By extension, we tell the story of women religious in general, of their life behind the convent walls, and of the pioneeri

Hotel Clemmen is a museum in the middle of Ghent's commercial center. Highlights of the collection include a reconstruction of the study and library of Belgian Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck and a Chinese salon. Hotel Clemmen in a patrician residence built in 1746 to the design of David 't Kindt

The Museum of Stone Objects is located in the old St. Bavo's Abbey from the 7th century. The museum displays a collection of stone sculptures, taken from disappeared or restored Ghent buildings.

The Archaeological Museum (UGent) is housed in Het Pand, the former Dominican monastery. The collection consists of finds of both Mediterranean and regional origin.

The school of the time is housed in an old Ghent schoolhouse built in 1901. The museum paints a picture of what the various classes looked like around 1920. It also introduces visitors to the way the subjects were taught. The museum's collection includes school furniture, photographs, decorative han

The Institute of Social History Ghent - Amsab preserves and provides access to the heritage of the socialist labor movement, small-left parties, movements around the environment, peace, women's emancipation, migrants, LGBT and the Third World. The archive includes an image and sound archive, flags,