Gent Design Museum
Belgium's largest design collection, in an eighteenth-century townhouse with a wing of recycled brick.
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This guide to Design Museum Gent in Ghent starts outside, at the pale brick wall of the new wing on Drabstraat, and asks what a wall is actually made of. It follows the city's own waste, an old lime-based craft, and the eighteenth-century townhouse the museum has called home for a century. Best heard standing on Drabstraat, within arm's reach of the brick.
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