EST. 1957

In 2007 Mu.ZEE embarked on an exploratory mission that can be summed up briefly as: how to become more of a museum. Besides three temporary exhibitions annually, we constantly do new presentations of the collection and look actively for dialogue between the two basic functions of the museum. Mu.ZEE is building up a research collection and we are actively looking for the memory of the collections of the Province of West Flanders and the City of Ostend. 

History relating to the visual arts is always ‘past imperfect’, the museum has the potential to organise and renew history on an ongoing basis. But time moves on, history is also “a silken thread of what you remember above an ocean of things forgotten” (Milan Kundera in “The Joke”, 1967).