Museum Dr. Guislain
Nineteenth-century asylum turned psychiatry museum, with old wards, medical relics and outsider art.
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This guide to Museum Dr. Guislain in Ghent goes back to the asylum Joseph Guislain planned in the eighteen-fifties, and to the men who moved in at the end of eighteen fifty-seven. It follows what ended up on their plates and where it came from, the farm and bakery inside the walls, and the jobs that filled their days. Best heard in the courtyard, with the old ward windows in view.
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