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Ce musée situé depuis 1998 dans la magnifique Halle aux Draps d'Ypres est consacré aux victimes de la première guerre mondiale.
D'abord la ville de Ypres dont aucun édifice ne dépassait le mètre à la fin de la guerre à l'exception du beffroi dont ci-joint une photo d'époque. Ensuite les habitants d'Ypres qui à partir de mai 1915 durent abandonner leur ville totalement rasée pour n'y retourner qu'en 1919 pour la reconstruire en habitant provisoirement dans des baraques en bois.
La reconstruction de la halle aux draps ne fut terminée qu'en 1965.
Puis les soldats dont près de 500 mille moururent dans les batailles du saillant d'Ypres.
Le musée est surtout basé sur des évocations audiovisuelles remarquablement bien faites avec des kiosques interactifs qui permettent aux visiteurs d'approfondir certains thèmes.
Le musée est donc surtout axé sur le côté humain plus exactement inhumain de la guerre, pour utiliser le terme juste l'effroyable boucherie que fût la guerre de 1914-1918.
Le côté technique d'armement est moins développé et ici un musée comme le Musée de l'Armée au Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles complète celui d'Ypres.
Notons parmi les horreurs techniques de cette guerre que c'est à Ypres que fût utilisé pour la première fois en avril 1915 le chlore comme gaz de combat, en juillet de cette même année furent utilisés les premiers lance flammes et en juillet 1917 le gaz moutarde appelé Ypérite.
Impossible de ne pas sortir ému de ce musée. Phone: +32 (0)57-22 85 82Directions: The museum is situated on the upper floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) in the centre of Ieper (Ypres).Website: http://www.inflandersfields.be/
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The museum is located in the rebuilt Lakenhalle - Cloth Hall of Ieper (Ypres) and was opened in 1998. It tells the story of WW I in and around Ypres from the standpoint of people who experienced the war themselves, the victims.
First victim the town of Ieper which was literally flattened. There was no building higher than one meter left except the Belfry. Second victims were the inhabitants who had been forced to evacuate in May 1915. From then on nobody lived in the ghost town of Ieper. The first inhabitants returned only in 1919 to rebuild their town and lived in wooden emergency houses.
Then there were the soldiers of which 500 thousand died in the battles of the "salient of Ypres".
The "In Flanders Fields" museum is especially based on interactive audiovisual evocations about the life at the front, the battles, trenches, no-man's land, weapons, medical care, fatigue, rest and entertainment behind the front. Pictures, light and sound effects provide a rejuvenated form which explains the success of the museum with annually 200 thousand visitors.
No doubt that this war museum is centred on the human side, I should say inhuman side of WW I which was an ignominious butchery.
The technical aspects, weapons, equipment of WW I are less developed in this museum than in the Army Museum at the Brussels Cinquantenaire or at the British Imperial War Museum in London for example.
Among the technical horrors of WW I, it was at Ypres that chlorine gas was used for the first time as well as flamethrowers in 1915. In July 1917 the almost odourless mustard gas, called Yperite since then, was used here.
It is impossible to leave this museum without feeling deep emotion. Phone: +32 (0)57-22 85 82Directions: The museum is situated on the upper floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) in the centre of Ieper (Ypres).Website: http://www.inflandersfields.be/
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This museum is really a must when you intend to explore the region of WWI.
When paying the entrance fee, you get a “ID” card of a person who had to go through this war. Along your visit you can put this card into one of the computers in the museum and follow this person and his experiences during the war.
There is more to see and to do (the museum is interactive) than I can describe, but one hall impressed me very much: it’s a place where you can feel the battle at the front and in the trenches.
A dark room with a mist of smoke making your nose and your eyes sting, sounds of bombing and gunshots followed by shouts and moans. A macabre sound and light show… Leave a Comment Address: Grand PlacePhone: +32 (0)57-22 85 82Directions: The museum is situated on the upper floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) in the centre of Ieper (Ypres).Website: http://www.inflandersfields.be/
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The In Flanders Field museum was the main reason we visited Ypres (Ieper), the name comes from the poem written by Canadian medical officer John McCrae. Before visiting here I had heard the name Ypres but didn't really know why I knew the name I suspect that it's because WWI wasn't really an American war, the US declared war in December 1917, more than 3 years after WWI had started and Belgium was not a place that I knew of as a major WWI battleground.
For me it was a very interesting and moving visit, hearing the stories of ordinary people involved in the conflict, some of whom thought going to war would be fun but had no idea what they were fighting for, and understanding how the lack of today's technology contributed to the enormous loss of life, many died simply because they couldn't transport them to medical facilities.
Ypres is an appropriate city for this museum, it was the sight of fighting for 4 long years with an estimated 1/2 million casualties and the Cloth Hall is also a fitting place to house the museum as it sustained heavy damage during the war.
The museum is located in the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) in the main square. The cost was $7.50E but we still had our discount hotel card from Brugge and paid 6E. Leave a Comment Phone: +32 (0)57-22 85 82Directions: The museum is situated on the upper floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) in the centre of Ieper (Ypres).Website: http://www.inflandersfields.be/
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Since the seventies there has been a small museum that told the story about the Ieper Saillant and the tragedy that took place in these Flanders Fields. It grew out above the average war museum (most collections of certain war memorabilias) as it makes you experience the drama at the hand of documentairy films, texts, maquettes, historical things but especially at the hand of diorama's showing happenings of the people that lived in this hell on earth. The soldiers, the nurses and doktors, the locals and of various nationalities. The 14-18-generation is dying, but this museum keeps the message (warning) alive. The clear statement that the museum hands over to us: war settles nothing and war only knows loosers.
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from 1-4 until 30-9 every day from 10:00 'til 18:00 hours
from 1-10 until 31-3 (except from X-mas until mid Januari) every day from 10:00 'til 17:00 hours - closed on Mondays Leave a Comment
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There is a pile of information here at VT about this museum....I wont duplicate the information but I would certainly recommend that you budget time for this MUST SEE EXPERIENCE...the presentation of the Media exhibitions are stupendous and the impact of visiting this Museum is huge!
Ive seen or read somewhere...." see it...smell it'...in fact its true...the musty smell of ages seems to permeate some of the artifacts and the collection as a whole...
If you've not read others interpretations about this museum Ill tell you one interesting feature...as you enter just about where you pay for entrance there is an automated machine that will spit out a paper with a bar code and the name of a person that really lived and possibly died here in Ieper before and or during the war...throughout the museum there are locations where you insert the paper and it will open a screen with real life details of the person's experience here during the conflict. The person that I received was named Jacobus Arnoldus Winters...The following is a little about him....
"On October 3, 1910 he was summoned to his military service. He was assigned to the 11th Line Regiment and did his military service Beverlo. March 14, 1912 he waved after 18 months service, is reduced. But not for long, because 2-12 June 1912 he was called back for 10 days. In 1913 he was recalled for the big maneuver. Then followed a call by 2-12 June 1914. On July 29, 1914 he was called to Liege for the Great War"
DONT MISS this museum if you are able to spend time in Ieper.... Phone: +32 (0)57-22 85 82Directions: The museum is situated on the upper floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) in the centre of Ieper.Website: http://www.inflandersfields.be/
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This museum is an excellent place with sound effects and audiovisual prompts.
It offers a fantstic insight to the part played by Ieper and explains the run up to the the first world war and the devestation of the war and the the post war period.
The 8 Euro entrance fee also includes entrance to the other museums in the city. Leave a Comment Address: First Floor of Cloth HallPhone: +32 (0)57-22 85 82Directions: The museum is situated on the upper floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) in the centre of Ieper (Ypres).Website: http://www.inflandersfields.be/
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Visiting the Flanders Fields museum first brings you to the rebuild Lakenhal, the biggest building at Ieper dominating the Market square.
On the first floor you are introduced to overwhelming war impressions.
The Museum is named after a poem by Canadian military doctor Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, 1872-1918:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Opening times:
April-Mid November: Weekly 10AM-6PM
Mid November-March: Tu-Su 10AM-5PM
Entrance price: Euro 7.50 Leave a Comment Address: Grote Markt 34 - 8900 IeperPhone: +32-57-228582Directions: The museum is situated on the upper floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhal) in the centre of Ieper.Website: http://www.inflandersfields.be/
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The "In Flanders Fields Museum " wants to confront its visitors. With the past, as well as with the present, with the story of one particular war in a particular place - "de Westhoek of Belgium" but also with the universal theme of the war that rages almost everywhere in this small world. Beiroet... Vietnam...Dublin...Dresden...Hiroshima...Leningrad...Bastogne...
Sarajewo... Warsaw .. and go on
De Westhoek remembers the dead of the great war in so many cemeteries and monuments that we tend to forget those who survived and had to live on with the physical and mental scars. Pay homage to the survivors aswell. Leave a Comment
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Why i made this report : Ypres and the Flanders Field Museum is a war museum with a message of peace - i hope it will remember the future.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John Mc Crae - May 1915 - a Canadian soldier who wrote this poem
BTW -i pictured this pictures in the museum ! Leave a Comment Phone: +32 (0)57-22 85 82Directions: The museum is situated on the upper floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) in the centre of Ieper (Ypres).Website: http://www.inflandersfields.be/
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