Amsab-ISH
Bagattenstraat 174
9000 Ghent
Phone: +32 (0)9 224 00 79
Email: info@amsab.be
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Discover our exhibitions, guided tours, book presentations, lectures, workshops and other public activities here.
April 27 - May 16, 2025
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
Back to start? takes you through a hundred years of leisure history in a playful way. In response to Heritage Day – with the theme game on! - we delved into our collection in search of historical images and authentic games that show how free time – and the way we think about it – has changed over the years.
Saturday June 21, 2025 - 13:30 PM - 17:30 PM
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
During the First World War, 1,5 million Belgians fled the violence of war. According to the In Flanders Fields Museum, every Belgian today has a flight story in his or her family history and municipality.
Are you also curious about this underexposed Belgian migration history? How can we find out the story of the person behind the numbers? Do you want to investigate the flight story of your family or your municipality? Then this workshop is for you!
Wednesday May 28, 2025 - 13:30 PM - 17:30 PM
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
On Wednesday 28 May, the new online database will be launched in the public area of Amsab-ISG Brigadistas from Belgium introduced. This website contains biographical data of more than two thousand volunteers who went to the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. The database was compiled on the basis of unique information from Spanish and Russian collections by researchers Rudi Van Doorslaer and François Van Pelt.
February 1 - May 18, 2025
Musée de la Photographie - Charleroi
The exhibition Studio Stone - a project by the Musée de la Photographie and Amsab-ISG - brings the forgotten interbellum photographers Cami and Sasha Stone and their multifaceted oeuvre back into the spotlight. With 80 iconic works from our collection, the exhibition offers a fresh look at their work, which ranges from architectural and industrial photography to nude and portrait photography.
Saturday April 27, 2025 - 14pm - 18pm
Winter Circus - Ghent
During Heritage Day on Sunday 27 April, Voem vzw and Amsab-ISG proudly present Digital there for: a brand new virtual archive and museum space where Voem's heritage comes to life. Discover the rich history of this socio-cultural organization through a digital lens, in an interactive environment where past and future meet.
November 18, 2024 – March 28, 2025
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
What was it like to be queer as a young person in the 1960s? And what about the decades that followed? Discover in the exhibition Young and queer since the sixties various aspects of the evolution of LGBTQ+ youth lives and activism, and how their struggles have helped pave the way for generations to come.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
The Expedition - Ghent
Historian Neslihan Doğan and photographer Çiğdem Yüksel attended El Ghorba Talk in conversation with each other in De Expeditie. They talked about their passion and mission: to make the first generation of Turkish women in Belgium and the Netherlands visible in migration history. They also emphasized the importance of archiving these stories.
June 17, 2024 – October 4, 2024
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
In the exhibition Small Resistance: Bicycles in the Amsab-ISG collection, we highlight the cycling heritage from our collection in all its facets. From a toy of the elite, to a means of emancipation, to a struggle with and for the bicycle.
Sunday 21 April 2024
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
On Heritage Day 2024, visitors could visit the exhibition for the last time Chilean popular resistance with needle and thread visit in Amsab-ISG.
December 11, 2023 – April 21, 2024
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
The exhibition Chilean popular resistance with needle and thread showed the work of women of missing prisoners under the Pinochet regime, who depicted their lives and traumas through the embroidery of colorful burlap.
May 8, 2023 – October 27, 2023
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Democratic People's and Culture Association (DHKD), one of the first 'self-organisations' in Flanders, the story of the association was presented in the exhibition We have never been the Turks. DHKD: 40 years on the barricades for minorities in collaboration with STAM and Amsab-ISG.
July 15 - 23, 2023
St. Nicholas Church - Ghent
During the Ghent Festivities 2023, the special exhibition was held in the St. Nicholas Church A story about rights in embroidery on display, with embroidered stories of Syrian women living in the Shatila refugee camp. This exhibition was the result of a collaboration between Amnesty International region Ghent, School of Arts/HOGENT, the Human Rights Research Network, Justice Visions and Amsab-ISG.
Lunch boxes speak volumes. What we eat for lunch says a lot about who we are and where we come from. Listen to our podcast now A brief history of the canteen period - a mix of wonderful testimonies and clever scientists.
November 18, 2022 – March 31, 2023
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
The exhibition Embroidered Past, Imagined Future in Congo in Amsab-ISG provided an impressive overview of the work of Congolese artist Lucie Kamuswekera, who depicts the turbulent history of Congo with her embroideries.
April 2 - August 28, 2022
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
On January 3, 1972, the woodcarver and graphic artist Frans Masereel passed away. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, Amsab-ISG and the MSK are diving into in their collections for a warm tribute to Masereel and to the friendships in his rich career.
November 19, 2021 – February 28, 2022
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
This exhibition and accompanying publication takes you through the 50-year existence of Oxfam-Werelwinkels through images.
August 22 - October 22, 2021
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
A look back at the history of the legendary daily newspaper for the labor movement, from heartwarming stories and improbable successes, to gripping dramas and inglorious lows.
July 19 - October 14, 2019
Amsab-ISG - Ghent
The events of May '68 in Paris sent shock waves through Western Europe. But in July '68 everything in Ghent seemed to remain the same: in the city the traditional Ghent Festivities continued as usual. Amsab-ISG is presenting an exhibition on the occasion of the Festivities.
November 30, 2018 - February 16, 2019
VANDENHOVE – Centre for Architecture and Art UGent
Amsab-ISG, VANDENHOVE - Centre for Architecture and Art and Ghent University present the exhibition 'Variety (1928-1930) and photography from the Amsab-ISG collection.
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