Program
temporary exhibitions
In Flanders Fields
Berlinde De Bruyckere
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Pedigrees
Lieve Van Stappen
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Infinite space
Ann Veronica Janssens
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Encounter
Mark Anstee
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Border
Hans Op de Beeck
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Group Picture with a War
Doron Solomons
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Diary
Kingsley Baird
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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What remains
Camiel van Breedam
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
…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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Events
India
in the Great War
- conference
The conference investigates the presence of the Indian Corps on the Western Front from October 1914 to January 1916, and ...
The Best Christmas Present
in the world
The celebrated British actor Michael Morpurgo, accompanied by actress Virginia McKenna, tells a story about the Christmas Truce of 1914. ...
Sequamur
Proiseact nan Ealan
- CC Het Perron, Ypres
- theatre show
Thanks to a cooperative venture with Proiseact nan Ealan (the Gaelic Arts Agency), the In Flanders Fields Museum is able ...
Innocence Slaughtered
- museum café
- book launch
In Flanders Fields Museum and publisher Uniform Press cordially invite you to the presentation of the book Innocence SlaughteredGas and the ...
The Passchendaele Year
Diary of A. Van Walleghem
- museum café
- book launch
Achiel Van Walleghem was a village priest who kept a detailed record of events and attitudes. His unusual work offers ...
An English Governess
in the Great War
- museum café
- book launch
Mary Thorp, an English woman of no particular fame living and working as a governess for a wealthy Belgian-Russian family ...
A Symphony of Trees
- concert
On Friday and Saturday, September 15th and 16th, 2017, composer Piet Swerts' A Symphony of Trees will be premiered in ...
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, ...
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 ...
Guardians
of the Fallen
- museum café
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
Disputed Earth
- museum café
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
Japan & WW1
- museum café
- lecture
Jan Schmidt, professor of Japanese studies at the University of Leuven, presents the unknown history of this Asian allied superpower ...
To End All Wars?
- CC Het Perron, Ypres
- conference
In Flanders Fields Museum and CEGESOMA organise the international four day conference To End All Wars?Geopolitical Aftermath and Commemorative Legaciesof the ...
Assembly|Memorial Chairs
IFFM & Val Carman
- Astridpark, Ieper
- remembrance
For the final weekend of the centenary commemoration, the In Flanders Fields Museum was inspired by Val Carman’s artistic and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
1918 Influenza Pandemic
Historical and Biomedical Reflections
- CC Het Perron, Ypres
- conference
The Universities of Ghent, Leuven and Antwerp and In Flanders Fields Museum organize the International and interdisciplinary conference The 1918 Influenza ...
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 ...
Chemical Warfare
- museum café
- lecture
On 29 and 30 August, an international workshop on societal implications of science and the role of the scientist is ...
Chinese Trench Art
from the First World War
- museum café
- lecture
In the early weeks of 2019, James Brazier donated 27 shell cases engraved by members of the Chinese Labour Corps ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(Hi)Stories
Since the door has to be closed, the showcases of the museum can be opened. Every week, staff members lift ...
Redmond Walk '21
- Wijtschate, Kemmel, Loker
- walk
William Redmond was a Member of Parliament in his brother John Redmond's Irish Nationalist Party. In 1914 he recruited thousands ...
the Artist in Residence Program
of IFFM, 1999-2021
- webinar
Each year since 1999 the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium, organises a residency for a contemporary artist who ...
Artist in Residence
2021
- museum café
- nocturne
Every year the In Flanders Fields Museum invites a contemporary artist to create new work about war and peace, or ...
A Cap of Horror
Leo Van bergen
- museum café
- book launch
Medical historian Leo van Bergen selected and translated forty poems and a sonnet cycle written by nurses about their experiences ...
11 November Lecture
Koen Aerts
- CC Het Perron, Ypres
- lecture
Ypres City of Peace, the Flemish Peace Institute and the In Flanders Fields Museum commemorate the end of World War I with a 11 ...
Civilian Casualties of War(s)
i.c.w. Handicap International
- CC Het Perron, Ypres
- remembrance
Armistice Day is a special day for Ypres. Every year, the Poppy Parade and the Last Post at 11 a.m. ...
Gratitude
Laurence Vielle, Marc Feld & Vincent Granger
- kruitmagazijn, Ypres
- theatre show
The Francophone-Belgian poet Laurence Vielle and the French artist Marc Feld resided in La Chartreuse (Neuville-sous-Montreuil, FR) in August 2019. ...
Russian Victims
the List of Names
- museum café
- book launch
Professor Wim Coudenys (KULeuven) and IFFM volunteer Patrick Rapoye have spent the past two years researching the little-known story of ...
For Civilisation & Missing at the Front
two exhibitions
- museum café
- nocturne
Dear Friends, We are pleased to invite you to a nocturne of the exhibitions MISSING AT THE FRONTUnearthing Names&'FOR CIVILISATION'the Great War ...
Artist in Residence
2022
- museum café
- nocturne
Every year the In Flanders Fields Museum invites a contemporary artist to create new work about war and peace, or ...
WW1 in the Middle East
Aftermath & Legacies
- CC Het Perron, Ypres
- conference
On the occasion of the temporary exhibition For Civilisation. The First World War in the Middle East, IFFM together with ...
Feuilles de Poilus
- museum café
- nocturne
In Flanders Fields Museum opens the dossier exhibition Feuilles de poilus decorated leaves from the First World War >>> program welcome by Dimitry Soenenalderman ...
a Street called Langemarck
War, Propaganda and Memory
- educational room
- lecture
In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History and Gateways Partnership, University of Kent, in partnership with the Western ...
11 November Lecture 2022
Geert Mak
- CC Het Perron, Ypres
- lecture
Ypres City of Peace, the Flemish Peace Institute and the In Flanders Fields Museum commemorate the end of World War I with a 11 ...
Armistice Day 2022
Ypres' civilian war victims
- Nieuwerck, Ieper
- walk
Armistice Day is a special day for Ypres. Every year, the Poppy Parade and the Last Post at 11am are ...
Wartime Dublin
- educational room
- lecture
In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History and Gateways Partnership, University of Kent, in partnership with the Western ...
That wide blue vault of sky...
nowhere wider than in the Flemish plain
- educational room
- lecture
In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History and Gateways Partnership, University of Kent, in partnership with the Western ...
T.E. Lawrence
and the Arab Revolt in Jordan
- educational room
- lecture
In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History and Gateways Partnership, University of Kent, in partnership with the Western ...
Lads from the West
the List of Names
- museum café
- book launch
During World War I, soldiers from more than 120 different contemporary countries passed through Belgium, including several Caribbean ones. The ...
Artist talk: Nikita Kadan
The Veil of Irpin & Tryvoha
- museum café
- artist in residence
As artist in residence for the In Flanders Fields Museum, the Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan (Kiev, 1982) created two art ...
on the Crossroads of Empires
WW1 Cemeteries in Poland
- vleeshuis, Ypres
- lecture
During World War I, the area between the Baltic Sea and the Carpathians was the battleground where three empires - ...
The Civilianization of War
and the Lausanne Treaty of 1923
- museum café
- lecture
On 24 July 1923, the last treaty officially ending hostilities of the Great War was signed in Lausanne, Switzerland. That ...
Commemorating Ireland
in the Ypres Salient since 1917
- educational room
- lecture
In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History and Gateways Partnership, University of Kent, in partnership with the Western ...
Reclaiming the Salient
Resurrecting the Battlegrounds
- vleeshuis, Ypres
- book launch
Roger Steward is a Brit who has been a professional guide in Ypres for many years. The two questions he ...
Pilgrimage and Tourism
along the Western Front
- educational room
- lecture
In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History and Gateways Partnership, University of Kent, in partnership with the Western ...
Ideas of England
in the entrance ways of IWGC war cemeteries
- educational room
- lecture
In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History and Gateways Partnership, University of Kent, in partnership with the Western ...
Photographing the Fallen
Ivan Bawtree and War Graves Photography
- educational room
- lecture
In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History and Gateways Partnership, University of Kent, in partnership with the Western ...
Americans in Flanders Fields
1914-1919
- museum café
- book launch
American involvement in Belgium during the First World War was diverse and extensive. Before the United States' official participation in ...
Vaisakhi
Sikh festival
- vleeshuis, Ypres
The Belgian Sikh community is celebrating its most important religious festival, Vaisakhi, in Ypres this year. For this occasion, the ...