Museum collection
Today the MIAT implements an active collecting policy and the collection contains over 30,000 objects. Pièces de résistance include the Mule Jenny and the twiner dating from 1789. The MIAT’s most...
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The overview of the industrial society provided by the MIAT occupies an area of 1,800 m². Volunteers set the textile machines in motion. The spectacle is impressive but the noise deafening!Ghent and...
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Turn the clock back 250 years! You are now in the eighteenth century and about to enterthe period of the first industrial revolution with the advent of the machine. Afterwards you experience the...
View ArticleKerstvakantie openingsuren
In de kerstvakantie gelden andere openingsurenNLIn de kerstvakantie wijken de openingsuren af. Het museum is open van 10 tot 18u. Het museum sluit op 24/12, 25/12 en 31/12 en 1/1. Maar is uitzonderlijk...
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