Musée des Modèles

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Design Museum Gent is a museum in Belgium with an international design collection. The museum complex is located in the tourist centre of Ghent and comprises an 18th-century mansion and a modern wing. The museum holds a collection of Belgian design, supported by international objects.

Design Museum Gent originates from a private initiative of a group of industrial design and art lovers who united in 1903 as the Union des Arts Industriels et Décoratifs (Association of Industrial and Decorative Arts) and created a "Musée des Modèles'. Initially, the collection consists of some hundred samples of furniture, supplemented by subcollections of ceramics, copper and bronze, furniture fragments and a large textile collection. These models were housed in the Ghent municipal academy, situated in the Sint-Margrietstraat. As the collection grow with purchases in the various pavilions during the Ghent 1913 World Exhibition and further extension of the collection, the union younger quarters. In 1922 the museum moved to Hotel de Coninck on the Jan Breydelstraat, which had brought a couple of years early. In 1951, under the leadership of a new director, Adelbert...