Kina: Garden

When the Ghent School Museum opened its doors in 1924, Leo Michel Thiery transformed the grounds around the museum into the first public wildlife garden in Flanders and the Netherlands. A living collection of plants was laid out on an area of 7600m², including some habitats typical of Belgium: marsh vegetation in a pond, an arable field, a meadow, heath vegetation, an orchard, calcareous grassland, wall vegetation and woodland. Nowadays, the historic botanical garden boasts a total of 1677 plant species, including various old trees such as the Ginkgo, Catalpa, Canadian poplar and balsam poplar. The School Museum became Kina, a nature museum for children. Here, children can still discover the beauty and richness of nature.