Museum
MIAT Ghent
45 locals recommend,
Location
10 Minnemeers
Gent, Vlaams Gewest
Tips from locals
MIAT is a vibrant museum that organizes exhibitions, workshops, museum games, film Sundays, matinées and soirées... and the thread running through them all is industry, labour and textiles.
The MIAT is the place to go if you want to learn about the history of industry in Ghent. The museum is set in a former mill building (what better place to learn about the industry in Belgium) and covers five floors. Whilst traveling through 250 years worth of industry, you will see and learn about plenty of machinery, which is even still operated on certain days of the week. It is deafeningly loud but luckily earplugs are provided! As an added bonus, there are great views of the city from the building’s top floor.
The MIAT is the place to go if you want to learn about the history of industry in Ghent. The museum is set in a former mill building (what better place to learn about the industry in Belgium) and covers five floors. Whilst traveling through 250 years worth of industry, you will see and learn about p…