Amsab-Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

Om museet

Amsab-ISG is the memory of social movements in Flanders and Belgium, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Its prehistory begins in 1937, when the socialist insurance company La Prévoyance Sociale in Brussels set up a National Institute for Social History; the German occupier closed it in 1940 and took the collections away. In the 1950s there was a Museum and Archive of the Ghent Socialist Movement in Ghent, and in 1964 a Ghent party archive was set up in the Feestlokaal Vooruit, working with volunteers.

In 1980 the institute was founded, which developed into an independent research centre. In 1991 Belgian archives that had been stolen during the Second World War were found in Moscow; they ended up with Amsab at the time. The institute grew from a party archive into an open house for the heritage of social movements and social engagement in all its forms.

The collection is some sixteen kilometres long and contains archives of trade unions, political parties, mutual insurance societies, NGOs and cultural organisations, more than 100,000 books and 17,000 journal titles, and a museum collection including some 850,000 photos, 35,000 posters and 20,000 art objects. The themes are labour, environment, migration, gender, human rights and global justice. The institute publishes the magazine Brood & Rozen and regularly shows exhibitions in a free public space.

Højdepunkter

• Free public space with regularly changing exhibitions
• Collection on labour, environment, migration, gender and human rights
• Museum collection including some 850,000 photos and 35,000 posters
• Reading room with archives and library, by appointment
• The magazine Brood & Rozen on social history

Grundlagt

1980

Ejer

Amsab-ISG

Ledelse

Paule Verbruggen

Entrépriser & rabatter

Der er gratis entré.

The exhibitions in the public space can be viewed free of charge. Amsab-ISG is a UiTPAS partner in the Ghent region.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

The reception and the public space with the free exhibition are on the ground floor and can be reached without steps. The reading room on the first floor can be reached by lift. The public toilets on the ground floor are suitable for wheelchair users. A sign language interpreter can be arranged on simple request.

Børn og familie

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Transport & parkering

By car, follow the city ring road R40. The historic centre of Ghent is a low-emission zone; check in advance whether your car is allowed in.

Service & spisesteder

Publications and products are on sale in the webshop.

Arrangementer & udlejning

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