Museum
In Flanders Fields Museum
Ypres, Belgium
A museum in the rebuilt Cloth Hall telling the story of the First World War in Flanders.
City · Belgium · Flanders
Ypres
A rebuilt town at the heart of the First World War battlefields, with a moving memorial gate.
about 5 h
For storytellers
Why Ypres matters
Ypres was almost totally destroyed during the First World War and rebuilt with care after the war, including its great Cloth Hall. Today it is a centre of remembrance, with museums, cemeteries and the Menin Gate memorial. Every evening, buglers sound the Last Post beneath the gate, a ceremony that visitors find deeply moving.
Talking points
- The Last Post is sounded at the Menin Gate every evening.
- The Cloth Hall was rebuilt after the war.
- The surrounding countryside holds many cemeteries and memorials.
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What to see in Ypres
Monument
Menin Gate
Ypres, Belgium
A memorial arch with the names of thousands of missing Commonwealth soldiers.
Historic site · UNESCO
Tyne Cot Cemetery
Ypres, Belgium
The largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world, in the former Passchendaele battlefield.
Also nearby
Within about 40 km, closest first.