One of the best ways to learn more about
a place is going to its city museum, so that’s what a friend and I did. We visited
the city museum of Ghent, the STAM. It was quite something, for starters the
museum is made out of a few buildings all connected together, making it one
beautiful building.
On the first floor we started by wearing
protection socks over our shoes and then entered a room which had the entire Ghent
layout on the floor. The centre was made of actual models and some parts of the
floor winded up the wall because it was so big. It was incredible to see the
city from above and it took me only a few second to find where I live and it
was so small on the large scale.
The next part was the view of a church
from the balcony and then a big hall where nuns used to eat, with a huge
fireplace. The rest of the museum was made of rooms with different parts of
history, paintings and objects. There was also a treasury room which felt like
stepping back in time, with dark wood and gold patterns against the wall. Next
was a table piled with small white Lego’s where a few extraordinary building
already stood. So we took our seats and started building some buildings of our
own, not nearly as great as already existing ones, but good enough.
The museum ended in the church where
some clothes, shoes and ceramics were on display. I think it’s really worth it
if you are interested in Ghent’s history, present and past.
xoxo
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