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From Abbey to Architectural Icon. Two Centuries of the Ghent University Library
30 August 2021
‘A mighty bookcase reaching to the skies’: that was architect Henry Van de Velde’s plan for the building that we now know as the Boekentoren in Ghent – the “Book Tower”. But the history of the university library is more than that imposing bit of skyline, as shown by historian Ruben Mante
Ghent University Museum Shows the Beauty and Doubt of Science
2 October 2020
Flanders welcomes another ambitious new museum, the Ghent University Museum (GUM). The GUM does not set out to display a number of scientific truths. Rather, it wants to demonstrate how doubt and beauty are part of the scientific process, by means of a selection of objects from the university’s co
The Book Tower’s Long Tail
25 June 2019
On 23 May 2007 Google and the University of Ghent signed an agreement. As a result, the Book Tower became the fifteenth institution worldwide to join the American company in its ambition to digitize the world's paper heritage. Ghent University Library and the Royal Library in The Hague (14 July 2010