Gent City Museum
Gent, Godshuizenlaan, 2 
The history of the city of Ghent is rich and interesting, and those who want to know it better, direct road to the Ghent City Museum (STAM). The museum occupies the former abbey of the 14th century, afterwards the monastery of the 17th century, which in itself is already a museum.
City Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent
Gent, Jan Hoetplein, 1 
The Museum of Modern Art (SMAK) in Ghent is dynamic and highly individual. It became the first modern art museum in Belgium. His permanent collection includes top-level works of national and international level. The museum opened relatively recently
Gent, Kraanlei, 65
Gent Museums 
Gent Design Museum
Gent, Jan Breydelstraat, 5
Gent Museums 
Dr. Gislen Museum
Gent, Jozef Guislainstraat, 43
Gent Museums 
Gent Museum of Fine Arts
Gent, Fernand Scribedreef, 1
Gent Museum 
Museum of Industry, Labor and Textiles
Gent, Minnemeers, 9
Gent Museum 
The Museum of Industry, Labor and Textiles (MIAT) occupies the former building of a textile mill in the center of Ghent. Here you can get acquainted with the development of industry in general and specifically textile, since the middle of the 18th century. and to the present day
Museums of Ghent are numerous and very diverse: everyone will find at least one of their interests . In addition, almost all of them are very modern, and the displays in them are presented as conveniently and pleasantly as possible for visitors . Art lovers in First of all it is worth to visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK), which is famous for its remarkable collection of paintings by the great Flemish painters . More modern art works are exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (SMAK), which is famous for its provocative and sometimes shocking exhibitions . Also in Ghent there is a very interesting Museum of Design, the exposition of which is told both about ancient examples of interior design and everyday objects, and about the most famous names in the modern world of design .
For easier and cheerful impressions you can visit the small museum "Ilyuzeum", dedicated to deceptions of sight and optical illusions.
Gevt's history connoisseurs also find what to see . One of the most famous museums of the city is the Museum of Industry, Labor and Textiles (MIAT), open to old th textile factory: here you can still see how the ancient machines work . The Ghent City Museum (STAM) occupies the historical abbey of the 14th century and offers to its visitors super-modern exhibitions telling the history of the city . Also worth a visit is the museum in the abbey St. . Petra . And for those who are interested in more recent past, be sure to visit the Alein House, a remarkable folklore museum of the ordinary life of people in the 20th century .
There are more specific museums in Ghent. Such, for example, is the museum in the still functioning psychiatric hospital of Dr. Gislen.
A special pride of this museum is a collection of art objects created by people with mental disabilities. Also interesting is the school-museum Estrier in a typical school building built in 1901. From her permanent exhibition you can learn about how education was conducted more than a century ago. And for easier and cheerful impressions, you can visit the small museum "Ilyuzum", dedicated to deceptions of sight and optical illusions.
Other interesting museums of the city are the Museum of the History of Science; Museum and garden House of Keen with the fossilized skeleton of a prehistoric reptile and a replica of Ghent, as it was 450 years ago; museum of Arnold Vander Hagen with a replica of the work room of the Nobel Prize-winner in literature, a native of Ghent Maurice Maeterlinck
Also several museums are open in castles, churches and institutions of Ghent. This is, for example, a museum in the City Hall, museums in the Cathedral of St. Bavo and the Church of St. Nicholas.