temporary exhibitions
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In Flanders Fields
Berlinde De Bruyckere
- main galleries
- artist in residence
The catalog is available in the webshop.
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Pedigrees
Lieve Van Stappen
- main galleries
- artist in residence
The catalog is available in the webshop.
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Infinite space
Ann Veronica Janssens
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Encounter
Mark Anstee
- main galleries
- artist in residence
The catalog is available in the webshop.
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Border
Hans Op de Beeck
- main galleries
- artist in residence
The catalog is available in the webshop.
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Group Picture with a War
Doron Solomons
- main galleries
- artist in residence
The catalog is available in the webshop.
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Diary
Kingsley Baird
- main galleries
- artist in residence
The catalog is available in the webshop.
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What remains
Camiel van Breedam
- main galleries
- artist in residence
The catalog is available in the webshop.
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More force than necessary
Rodrigo Braga
- main galleries
- artist in residence
In 2010 the In Flanders Fields Museum invites the young Brazilian artist Rodrigo Braga as Artist in Residence. Born in Manaus ...
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Fairplay?
Sport and WW1
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
Around 1900 a fresh sports culture started to slowly gain a foothold in an ever more modern society. However, the ...
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Warfare Canaries
Thorsten Brinkmann
- main galleries
- artist in residence
After a gap of a number of years, the IFFM is resuming its former practice of appointing an artist in ...
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1914 Ypres & Yser
the First Battle
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
After two and a half months of waiting, the First World War finally arrives in the Westhoek. Within a matter ...
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British headgear in WW1
from tradition to protection
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
At the start of the Great War the British army, unlike its future allies, had already undergone several reforms. Based on its ...
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To school?
Belgian children '14-'19
- temporary exhibition
When the German armies invaded Belgium on 4 August 1914, Belgium was hit by considerable population movements. Between August and ...
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1915 Gas! Dream Castles?
the Second Battle
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
The first major gas attack in history took place on 22 April 1915. Chlorine gas from the German front line ...
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Flowers of Remembrance
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
On 3 May 1915, the Canadian officer John McCrae wrote his famous poem, In Flanders Fields, with the powerful image of poppies blowing ...
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Even the Dust remains
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Even The Dust Remains invites us to delve into the history of war, politics and aesthetics through deliberately contemporary forms ...
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Menin Gate at Midnight
Will Longstaff
- main galleries
- temporary exhibition
Will Longstaff (Ballarat, 1879 - London, 1953) was an Australian painter of landscapes, allegorical works and war scenes. During the ...
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a Group Photograph
before, now & in between
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
For many years, British researcher Andrew Tatham studied the ancestors and descendants of the officers of one British battalion, shortly before it ...
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Edgard Saey
Donation in the spotlight
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
Safeguarding heritage for future generations is one of a museum's basic tasks. Ever since In Flanders Fields Museum opened its ...
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1916 Canada
in Flanders
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
Canada lost almost 65,000 lives during the First World War. A quarter of all the victims that perished outside of Canada ...
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Landscape, Form & Psyche
Eva Kot’átková
- main galleries
- artist in residence
On a proposal by curator Johan Tahon and his team, the In Flanders Fields Museum invited Czech artist Eva Kot’átková as ...
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The War in Writing
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
How did we hear about the First World War in written words ? And why is it so necessary for ...
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Seeing
without being seen
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
Man has always sought ways to feel safe at night, by providing light and by reacting to any risk of danger. But ...
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The Lions
of the Menin Gate
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
In 1936 the Ypres city authorities donated two monumental but seriously damaged heraldic lions to Australia. The statues were created in ...
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1917 Total War
in Flanders
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
In 1917, three years after it began, the war turned into a worldwide conflict. All countries involved did their utmost ...
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Fire Bill's Spook Kit
Wilmer Wilson IV
- main galleries
- artist in residence
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S.A.'s participation in World War I. The In Flanders Fields Museum proudly ...
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French headgear in WW1
from tradition to protection
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
This dossier exhibition offers an overview of the evolution of French headgear from the eve of the First World War ...
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Traces of War
WWI archaeology
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
By the end of the First World War the front line landscape had been turned into a huge wilderness. When ...
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Japan
and the Great War
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
This dossier exhibition offers an overview of how the war was reported in Japan, the image of Japan as one ...
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Assembly
Val Carman
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Between August 2014 and August 2018 the British artist Val Carman had the installation Assembly travel throughout the United Kingdom ...
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King Albert’s Heroes
the Belgian Corps A.C.M.
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
This dossier exhibition tells the incredible story of the 400 Belgian military of the Corps 'Autos-Canons-Mitrailleuses' who fought on the ...
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Dragons
on the western front
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
In 1919 thousands of Chinese stayed in the Westhoek. From 1917 this Chinese Labour Corps had arrived in the area ...
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Letter to Pain
Fabrice Samyn
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Fabrice Samyn (°1981), artist-in-residence 2019 of the In Flanders Fields Museum, discovered 6,000 letters from and to soldiers in the ...
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Feniks
reconstructing Flanders Fields
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
“Reconstruction is more important than destruction and deserves to be remembered.” These words of the Belgian war reporter Rudi Vranckx ...
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Place
Philippe Viérin
- main galleries
- artist in residence
In 2020, the former front region of the First World War focuses on post-war reconstruction. It is now almost a ...
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Tanks
in the living room
- main galleries
- temporary exhibition
The First World War was the first industrialised war, with the tank as one of the newest modern weapons. The ...
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…and to those North Sea waves whispering sunken stories
Sammy Baloji
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi, Congo, and has lived alternately in Lubumbashi and Brussels since 2006. He ...
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Missing at the Front
unearthing names
- main galleries
- temporary exhibition
Countless soldiers lost their lives on the battlefields of the First World War. Many found eternal rest in a military ...
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'for Civilisation'
the Great War in the Middle East
1914-1923
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
In 1914, war broke out not only in Europe, but also in the Middle East. This region was largely dominated ...
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Music and War
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
On 1 October 2021, museum director Piet Chielens retired. He was appointed coordinator of the In Flanders Fields Museum in ...
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Agar is dharti tay koyi jannat hai, o ay hi hai...
Baptist Coelho
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Baptist Coelho (Mumbai, 1977) is a visual artist from India and is the artist-in-residence at the In Flanders Fields Museum ...
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Feuilles de Poilus
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
With the falling of the leaves, IFFM pays attention to leaves from the First World War. Not just any leaves, ...
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Raoul Servais
Memories of War
- main galleries
- temporary exhibition
It is said that those who have lived through war are forever changed. Raoul Servais (Ostend, 1928), the internationally award-winning ...
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FOR EVERMORE
Cemeteries of the First World War
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
On 30 June 2022, more than 100 years after his death in 1917, Canadian soldier John Lambert found his final ...
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Travelling to the Ypres Battlefields
from 1917 to today
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
In the battlefield area around Ypres, today, many tourists visit monuments, cemeteries and memorials, museums and landscape sites from the ...
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Explosions near the Museum
Y. Malashchuk & R. Khimei
- main galleries
- video installation
Between 24 and 26 October 2022, the Russian army looted thousands of archaeological, historical and religious objects from the Regional ...
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The Veil of Irpin
Nikita Kadan
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Nikita Kadan (Kyiv, 1982) is this year's artist in residence at the In Flanders Fields Museum. He currently lives in ...
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Vern-Event
art happening
- Elverdingestraat, Ypres
- dossier exhibition
Vern-Event - or: vernissage event - is an annual art happening that takes place in the Elverdingestraat in Ypres, a ...
knowledge centre
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Mind, Body & Soul
Salvation Army & YMCA
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on Thursday evening, ...
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Canadian Memorialisation
St. Julien Memorial
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
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Maurice of Battenberg
his grave, IWGC & Princess Beatrice
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
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Fighting among friends?
British soldiers & their allies
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
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Poppy Petals
WW1 in 21st Century Britain
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
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Tracing Belgian Refugees
research project and dbase
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
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Notes and Swearies
Blasphemy & obscene language
- knowledge centre
- lecture
Under the title "Gateways to the First World War", the In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School ...
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Returning Veterans
Pilgrimage & War Cemeteries
- knowledge centre
- lecture
Under the title "Gateways to the First World War", the In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School ...
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Mud, Blood & Darkness
Australian War Writing
- knowledge centre
- lecture
Under the title "Gateways to the First World War", the In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School ...
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Imagining
the West Indian soldier
- knowledge centre
- lecture
Under the title "Gateways to the First World War", the In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School ...