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The Passchendaele Museum reopend its doors from 1 February 2023

After a two-month closure, visitors can experience the story of The First World War and the Battle of Passchendaele again at the Passchendaele Museum from 1 February 2023. Numerous activities are planned to make it a good year. There will be a new temporary exhibition and accompanying walk in the Zonnebeke castle grounds, various lectures, a book launch and the annual ...

Exhibition on the First World War in the Middle East in the IFFM

In Flanders Fields Museum opens unique exhibition on the First World War in the Middle East and thus transcends the borders of the Western Front   Besides in Europe, war also broke out in the Middle East in 1914. This region was largely dominated by the Ottoman Empire, which sided with Germany and therefore belonged to the losing side in 1918. The Ottoman Empire fell apart and the ...

Eggewaartskapelle: Armistice - 13/11

Please find below a number of pictures of Remembrance Day on Sunday 13 November 2022 with ceremonies at Eggewaartskapelle and Veurne. Service in the church of ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 09/03

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 3 March 2023. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at 19.00hrs.    

Ieper: War diary of Jules Geldhof back home - 04/03

The In Flanders Fields Museum in Ieper receives donations on a very regular basis. But this time, the donation had made a trip around the world before it came back to Ieper. Jules Geldhof was born in Izegem (Flanders) in 1892 and served as a volunteer during the Great War 1914-1918. He kept a diary during the war. He was wounded in 1917 and transported to Birmingham in the UK to a military ...  

Ieper: Herdenking van de soldaten uit India / Commemorating the soldiers form India (Frank Mahieu) - 12/11

Annual ceremony, the day after Armistice Day, commemorating the fallen soldiers from India at the memorial at the ramparts near Menin Gate, Ypres. We Will Remember Them. Jaarlijkse ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 03/02

Ploegsteert - Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 3 February 2023. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at 19.00hrs.  

Ypres Peace Classes  launches brand new programme for primary schools

Ypres Peace Classes is a brand new multi-day programme tailored to primary school classes (10-12 years old). Pupils are accompanied for two or more days by an educational guide on the theme of peace.   The programme offers a good mix of museum visits and active exploration of the landscape. In the evening the Last Post can be attended and the pupils can stay overnight in a quality group ...

In Flanders Fields Museum Ieper: Programme 2022

On Friday 11 February 2022, the In Flanders Fields Museum Ieper presented its annual programme 2022 to the press. Special attention went to the opening of the exhibition 'Missing at the Front. Unearthing Names'.       This exhibition illustrates how archaeology gives missing soldiers back their identity. Furthermore, the large, thematic exhibition 'For ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 06/01

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 6 January 2023. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at 19.00hrs.  ;

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 02/12

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 2 December 2022. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at 19.00hrs.  

Passchendaele Museum doors open again from 1 February

The Passchendaele Museum in Zonnebeke will open its doors again from 1 February after the annual closing period. New this year is the temporary exhibition 'Here dead we lie' by the University of Kent and the exhibition around a unique loan. Temporary photography exhibition in combination with poetry and objects In cooperation with the University of Kent, the museum will ...

Ieper: Ceremony Saint-Charles de Potyze - 11/11

Please find below some pictures of the commemoration on Armistice 11/11/2022 on the French military cemetery Saint-Charles de Potyze at ...

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