Design Museum Gent

Design Museum Gent is a museum in Belgium with an international design collection. The museum complex is located in the tourist centre of and comprises an 18th-century mansion and a modern wing.
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday: 9:30 AM—5:30 PM
    Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
  • Email: museum.design@gent.be
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Gent
  • Also known as: “Musée des Modèles” and “Museum voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving”
  • Address: Jan Breydelstraat 5, Gent, 9000
  • Wheelchair access: limited

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Castle of the Counts and Graslei.

Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Gravensteen is a medieval castle in the city of , in . The current castle dates from 1180 and was the residence of the Counts of Flanders until 1353. is situated 180 metres north of Design Museum Gent.

Photo: Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a quay in the historic city center of , located on the right bank of the Leie river. The quay opposite of the is called . is situated 130 metres southeast of Design Museum Gent.

Church
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St. Nicholas Church is a Roman Catholic church, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent landmarks in , Belgium. Begun in the early 13th century as a replacement for an earlier Romanesque church, construction continued through the rest of the century in the local Gothic style. is situated 300 metres southeast of Design Museum Gent.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Patershol and Prinsenhof.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Neighborhood
The or Hof ten Walle was a historic building in , in . It served as the official residence of the Counts of Flanders from the 15th century after the fell into disuse, having previously been the home of the financier Simon de Mirabello.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Design Museum Gent

Latitude
51.0557° or 51° 3′ 21″ north
Longitude
3.71972° or 3° 43′ 11″ east
Open location code
9F353P49+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1111992419
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­limited
Wiki­data ID
Q1809071
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Walloon—“Design Museum Gent” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف التصاميم في غنت”
  • Belarusian: “Музэй дызайну (Гент)”
  • Belarusian: “Музэй дызайну ў Генце”
  • Belarusian: “Музэй дызайну”
  • Catalan: “Museu del Disseny de Gant”
  • Chinese: “根特设计博物馆”
  • Dutch: “Design Museum Gent”
  • Dutch: “Musée des Modèles”
  • Dutch: “Museum voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving”
  • French: “Design Museum Gent”
  • French: “Musée des Modèles”
  • French: “Museum voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving”
  • German: “Design Museum Gent”
  • German: “Designmuseum Gent”
  • German: “Musée des Modèles”
  • German: “Museum voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving”
  • Latin: “Design Museum Gent”
  • Latin: “Musée des Modèles”
  • Latin: “Museum voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving”
  • Limburgan: “Design Museum Gent”
  • Limburgan: “Musée des Modèles”
  • Limburgan: “Museum voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Design Museum Gent”
  • Picard: “Design Museum Gent”
  • Picard: “Musée des Modèles”
  • Picard: “Museum voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving”
  • Polish: “Design Museum Gent”
  • Polish: “Muzeum designu w Gent”
  • Slovenian: “Musée des Modèles”
  • Slovenian: “Museum voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving”
  • Slovenian: “Muzej oblikovanja Gent”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Diseño de Gante”
  • Swedish: “Design Museum Gent”
  • Vlaams: “Design Museum Gent”
  • Vlaams: “Musée des Modèles”
  • Vlaams: “Museum voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving”
  • Walloon: “Design Museum Gent”
  • Walloon: “Musée des Modèles”
  • Walloon: “Museum voor Sierkunst en Vormgeving”

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