We recommend buying your tickets online here. Your ticket grants you access to the entire museum and all exhibitions.
Are you visiting with a group of 15 people or more? Easily book your group visit, with or without a guide, via Museum Bookings Ghent.
Need help with your online reservation? For individual tickets, feel free to call +32 (0)9 323 60 01 (available on weekdays from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM). For group bookings, please contact Museum Bookings Ghent at +32 (0)9 210 10 75 (available on weekdays from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM).
9:30 - 17:30
Tuesday to Friday
closed on Mondays
- For primary, secondary and higher education. The guide adapts to each target group: from preschoolers to pupils with disabilities or pupils from non-Dutch-speaking backgrounds.
- Duration: 1.5 hours.
- Price:
- guided tour of S.M.A.K.: 90 euros (primary and secondary education), 100 euros (higher education)
- guided tour of De Brug: 105 euros (primary and secondary education)
- Maximum 20 pupils per guide
- You can request a reservation online via the links for each target group below. Do you need help with your online request? Call Museum Bookings Ghent on 32 (0)9 210 10 75 (Monday to Friday, between 9:00 and 12:30).
- Group visits without a guide must also be booked in advance.
- Every visitor must pay an admission fee:
- -19 years free
- 19 to 25 years €8.50
- Please book in advance via this link or call Museum Bookings Ghent on 09 210 10 75.
Guided tour Primary schools
On an interactive journey of discovery, your students will explore the fascinating visual language of contemporary art. They encounter sometimes strange, often surprising images behind which fascinating stories lie. Together with a guide, the pupils search for meaning via doing assignments.
- Who: children from 2,5 to 12 years of age.
- For preschoolers, we strongly recommend splitting a class of more than 20 pupils into 2 groups.
- Duration: max. 1,5 hour.
- Price par guide: 90 euro.
- Number: max. 20 children/guide.
- Book online here.
Guided tour Secondary Education
With a guide, you tour the museum and get to know current works of art in different exhibitions. Works of art with a challenging visual language are viewed and analysed from their context. Interaction, open communication and formulating your own opinion are central.
- Who: youngsters between 12 and 18 years.
- Duration: 1,5 h.
- Price: 90 euro/guide.
- Number: max. 20 pupils/guide.
- Book here online.
Tour University - Higher education
What is your definition of art? How conditioned are your view of the world and the way you look at art? How coloured are your cultural glasses? Could you make this too or does the artist outshine you anyway? And what role do artists, art and museums of contemporary art play today? Lots of questions for an engaging walking conversation at S.M.A.K.
- Who: students from 18 years.
- Duration: 1.5h.
- Price: 105 euro/guide + entree ticket S.M.A.K.
- Number: max. 20 participants/guide.
- Book online here.
Tour De Brug (also in MSK Gent) - for primary and secondary education
Marcel Broodthaers at S.M.A.K. and Hieronymus Bosch at the MSK? Cross the street and visit both S.M.A.K. and the MSK-Ghent. Together with the guide, you will search for differences, similarities and fascinating stories that connect works of art and artists of the past and present. Is contemporary art really that difficult or does late medieval symbolism turn out to be truly abstract?
- 6 to 12 years (free entree)
- 12 to 18 years (free entree)
- Duration: 2h.
- Price per guide: 10-12 & 12-18 y.: 105 euro
- Number: max. 20 students/guide.
