Arnold Vander Haeghen Museum

The Arnold Vander Haeghen Museum, opened in 1953, is a 18th century historic house presenting a collection including a reconstruction of the study and the library of the Belgian Nobel Prize-winner Maurice Maeterlinck, two rooms housing the work of artists Charles Doudelet and Victor Stuyvaert who illustrated Maeterlinck’s work, and a Chinese salon.

The mansion, the former Hotel Clemmen, was built in 1746, but extended and embellished in the 1770s by the Ghent textile baron J. Clemmen.

In 1836 the Ghent family Vander Haeghen became the new owners of the Hotel Clemmen. The Vander Haeghen family bequeathed the building to the City of Ghent, on condition that it would serve as a museum.

Since 1997 the premises have also been used by the Departments of Culture and Arts of the City of Ghent.

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