Huis van Alijn, Ethnographic museum in Kraanlei, Ghent, Belgium

Huis van Alijn occupies the former Kinderen Alijnshospitaal on Kraanlei, a stepped row of pale cream brick houses with dark tiled gabled roofs around an inner courtyard. The 16th-century complex comprises a gateway, eight street-side houses and sixteen three-room dwellings, plus the late-Gothic Sint-Catharinakapel built between 1543 and 1546. The museum displays everyday life in Flanders from the early 20th century to today.

The Rijm family founded the Kinderen Alijnshospitaal in 1363 as a reconciliation after Simon Rijm killed Hendrik Alijn; Count Louis of Male ordered a payment of 200 pounds Parisis. The present layout, with a gate and eight street houses plus sixteen three-room dwellings around a courtyard, dates from the 16th century, when the late-Gothic Sint-Catharinakapel was built between 1543 and 1546. The museum's forerunner was the Royal Association of East Flemish Folklorists, founded on 2 May 1926; its Folklore Museum opened in 1932 and moved to the former hospital on the Kraanlei in 1962. In 2000 it was renamed Huis van Alijn.

The house shows how daily life in Flanders has changed over generations and what customs and celebrations still matter today. The exhibitions reveal how people work, celebrate, and pass down their traditions.

The museum occupies the former Children's Alijn Hospital on the Kraanlei, with its entrance gate and eight street-side houses opening onto a courtyard. The museum café sits in the medieval inner garden. Since 2017 the displays are participatory and multisensory, with provisions for blind and partially sighted visitors, deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors, people with autism and people with dementia.

The puppet theatre Het Spelleke van Folklore, formerly Spelleke van de Muide, has been housed in the museum since 1936 and still performs there. In 2025 children voted Pierke van Alijn, its main puppet, Museum Piece of the Year.