The association's collection, initially housed in the library, grew so much in the following years that a new home was required.

Ten years after its founding, the stem puppet theater Het Spelleke van Folklore, the former Spelleke van de Muide, found a home in the museum and it has remained there until today.

[1] In terms of content, the museum's policy until well into the twentieth century was characterized by the search for insight into one's own folk nature.

The ideological abuse to which popular culture was exposed during the interwar period led to a thorough reflection on methodology after World War II and a reorientation within European folklore in the 1960s.

[2] At the museum level, the nostalgic vision at Ghent's Museum of Folklore long persisted: faithful and eloquent reconstructions of vanished crafts, interiors and folkloric customs continued to rule the roost until the 1990s.