The temporary STAM collections describe the phenomenon of "urbanity" by means of contemporary issues.

STAM refers the visitor to the city itself and to Ghent's cultural heritage.

In the Bijloke abbey that can be accessed through a passerelle in glass, the history of the city is told by means of three hundred objects.

In 2022, an investigative article in De Standaard pointed out that Belgian museums still held art that had been looted during the Nazi occupation from Jews in Belgium.

[3] A painting by Gaspar de Crayer which had been seized from the collector Samuel Hartveld, was purchased by the Bijloke museum.