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Design Museum Gent occupies Hotel De Coninck, a town house built in 1755 for a linen merchant on the Jan Breydelstraat, together with a wing from 1992 and a new timber-framed wing by Carmody Groarke, ATAMA and RE-ST with a rooftop terrace. The collection ranges from fourteenth-century chairs to contemporary Belgian and international design.
STAM is Ghent's city museum, opened in 2010 on the Bijloke site in the buildings of the medieval Bijloke abbey, joined to a new glass entrance building by city architect Koen Van Nieuwenhuyse. The Story of Ghent traces the city's history room by room, and visitors can walk across a 300 m² aerial photograph of Ghent.
S.M.A.K. is Ghent's municipal museum of contemporary art, opened in 1999 in the renovated former casino building in the Citadelpark, opposite the Museum of Fine Arts. Its collection covers international art after 1945, from Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol to Panamarenko, and Jan Fabre's sculpture The Man Who Measures the Clouds stands on the roof.
The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent stands on the east side of the Citadelpark, in a building designed by city architect Charles van Rysselberghe around 1900. Its collection of some 9,000 works runs from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, centred on Flemish art, with paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, Peter Paul Rubens and James Ensor.
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