About us

Design Museum Gent invites you to look differently at the role design plays in everyday life. Explore our extensive collection, from fourteenth-century chairs to today's ingenious and thought-provoking designs. Discover how design surrounds us, helps usaddress social challenges and offers new ways of shaping the future. Everything that has been designed can be redesigned. 

More than beautiful objects 

A design object is never just something beautiful. It tells a story about the past and the present. It reflects the way we live, traveland relate to the natural world. By preserving design heritage, we create a source of knowledge that helps us understandyesterday and imagine better solutions for tomorrow. 

A place for everyone 

We are much more than a museum. Design Museum Gent is a welcoming meeting place for everyone with an interest in design. Designers, makers, users and dreamers come together here to imagine a world that is more beautiful, more sustainableand more thoughtful. Through experimentation, dialogue and collaboration, we encourage everyone to discover the power of design and put it into practice.