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The oldest mental asylum in Belgium, which dates back to 1857 is in Jozef Guislainstraat. Today it houses an absolutely fascinating museum.
It was the visionary Dr Guislain who was one of the first to think of mentally ill people as patients with a right to humane treatment. The shame that was felt at the way psychiatric patients had been treated in the past was the impetus for founding the Dr Guislain Museum in Ghent in 1986.
Definitions of normal
Dr Guislain Museum in Ghent aims to break down the many prejudices that still define what is ‘mentally ill’ and what is ‘normal’. Discover the permanent collection about the history of psychiatry, and the great temporary exhibitions.
Museum café
You can stay and talk about your impressions in the museum café.
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Opening hours
Entrance fee
Basic price
€ 10
Reduction +65 years
€ 8
Reduction groups
€ 8
Reduction -26 years
€ 3
Reduction -19 years
€ 1
Reduced rate -13 years
free
Accessible with a CityCard Gent
free
