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STAM wins Museum Prize, twice

STAM, the city museum of Ghent, has won this year’s Museum Prize for Flanders, scooping both the main jury prize and the public prize. STAM (pictured) opened in 2010 on the Bijloke abbey site. The museum’s collection reflects the history of the city, and STAM also hosts temporary exhibitions relating to Ghent.

This year’s nominees also included the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, Gaasbeek Castle, Museum aan de Stroom (MAS) in Antwerp and Mu.ZEE in Ostend. Ghent’s victory comes as something of a surprise: The past year has been dominated by the arrival on the scene of the new MAS, which last week announced it had attracted one million visitors in its first year.

De wereld van Kina (The World of Kina), also in Ghent, took this year’s children’s prize, voted by a children’s jury.

The Museum Prize is regional, and this year’s Brussels winner is the Victor Horta Museum in Sint-Gillis, located in the architect’s former home and an adjoining house, which now includes an archive and library, an exhibition room and a cafeteria. Each Museum Prize is worth €10,000.

(May 30, 2024)