educational program 16-18 years

at school

in advance

Do you come as a teacher with a class group? Then don't forget to book your visit. On presentation of your booking confirmation, you can come and prepare your visit free of charge, or make an appointment with the educational service to discuss your own ideas or proposals.

SCHOOL VISIT REQUEST

educational package

With this information file you can prepare your visit to the museum and the Westhoek as a teacher. The file contains practical tips and historical background information, and explanations on the educational approach and the mission of the In Flanders Fields Museum..

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inside

look & see

Your students can explore the exhibition independently using this worksheet. While there is a lot to see in the exhibition, there is also a lot to think about. So the questionnaire is descriptive as well as thought-provoking. Feel free to contact us for the answers.

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look & listen

With the audioguide, your pupils visit the museum independently. The exhibition is explored in 40 consecutive listening points. But those who want more, will find additional information and explanations on 31 objects and themes all along the way.

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€ 2 /pp.

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guided visit

With a silent system, an educational guide takes your group through the museum. The guided tour lasts one hour, but be sure to allow some time to explore the museum on your own afterwards.

€ 55

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the Great War

During this workshop, some themes from the museum are explored in depth. Posters, photographs, objects and witnesses raise questions and point to answers. What is and how does propaganda work? How did the use of weapons evolve, and what role did scientists play in it? And do we stand up for peace today?

€ 35

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war and trauma

Images, witnesses and objects sketch the evolution of medical care in wartime. The improvisation and chaos of the early period contrasts sharply with the later industrial character of the war. Weapons are perfected to create even more misery. In addition to physical injuries, total warfare causes psychological suffering, drags civilians along, and aims at the complete destruction of the whole society.

€ 35

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day trip

the Salient Illustrated

The British cartoonist Dave Chisholm produced a large landscape illustration of the Ypres Salient northern battlefield. A hundred iconic soldiers -all doing their bit- vividly establish the war situation. In the midst of the scenery is the authentic and preserved site of Yorkshire Trench & Dugout.

During the afternoon tour, the imaginatory interpretation is led back to reality by means of historical photographs, witness accounts, and archaeologic discoveries.

10.00 am: guided museum visit
11.00 am: individual continuation of the visit
11.30 am: lunch
12.30 pm: visit to Essex Farm Cemetery
1.00 pm: workshop at Klein Zwaanhof
2.00 pm: guided walk
- 2 km in the northern Salient
- tablet display of photos & illustration details
- visit to Colne Valley Cemetery
- visit to Caesar's Nose
- visit to Yorkshire Trench & Dugout

€ 160 (< 25 ppl. with 1 guide)
€ 320 (26 < 50 ppl. with 2 guides)
museum visit & lunch not included

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from front to hospital

When it became clear that the war would make many victims, the organization of the medical service became better and more institutionalized. Images, witness accounts and objects make this evolution understandable.

To a large extent, the medical effort was also a matter of transport. Wounded were taken from the front via intermediate aid stations to hospitals in the rear area. Cemeteries along these evacuation routes are their last silent witnesses.

10.00 am: workshop 'war and trauma'
11.00 am: guided museum visit
12.00 am: lunch
1.00 pm: guided bus tour
- 42 km
- Hill 60 & Caterpillar
- Railway Dugouts Burial Ground
- Hop Store Cemetery
- Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

€ 195 (< 25 ppl. with 1 guide)
€ 285 (26 < 50 ppl. with 2 guides)
museum visit & lunch not included

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your Flanders fields

In close cooperation with the museum staff, a program focusing on your specific party can be developed. No doubt the Roll of Honour of your school links up with the List of Names established by the museum. Former lads of your school thus may guide your today's pupils into their=your Flanders fields.

This daytrip needs careful and timely preparation, no doubt. In this respect, or when you consider to participate and contribute to the continuous research that grounds the List of Names, please contact the educational team.

10.00 am: Workshop 'the Great War'
11.00 am: guided museum visit
12.00 pm: lunch
1.00 pm: your Flanders Fields tour

€ 195 (< 25 ppl. with 1 guide)
€ 285 (26 < 50 ppl. with 2 guides)
museum visit & lunch not included

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outside

guided tours

city at war

From mid-October 1914 Ypres was continuously shelled. Hundreds of inhabitants and dozens of aid workers had to cope in difficult circumstances. At the beginning of May 1915 the civilian population was forced to leave the city and Ypres became a large military centre on the way to and from the front. A few soldiers and civilians wrote down their experiences and thus edited this town walk.

€ 70

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bike ride

A trench war has everything to do with the landscape. Small or large differences in height make the difference between seeing or being seen. Cycling is the ideal way to experience this at first hand. From March to October, and if you foresee a minimum of three hours, an educational guide will be happy to work out a suitable route for you, with or without a picnic stop along the way.

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€ 105 (€ 35 per extra hour)

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a multicultural war

The war brought together populations from all parts of the world in the Westhoek. Even if they were on the same side, they were not always treated equally. Moreover, from their own culture they 'd brought their own (religious) customs. So local people often drew big eyes and sometimes living together was not easy.

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18 km, among others:
- Bedford House Cemetery
- Hill 60 & Caterpillar
- Nécropole St. Charles de Potyze
- Menin Gate Memorial

€ 105

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ghost in a bottle

Though forbidden by international agreements, the war also went on the chemical way. Ypres is the place where poison gas was used for the first time in history on 22 April 1915. In the front sector where this happened, we let soldiers speak. But also civilians can talk about this weapon that spares nothing or nobody.

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29 km, among others:
- New Irish Farm Cemetery
- Yorkshire Trench & Dug-out
- Steenstraat monument
- Soldatenfriedhof Langemark

€ 105

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great war, little peaces

At Christmas 1914, soldiers came out of their trenches to fraternize in no man's land. Friend and foe noted that they shared more similarities than differences. In the years following there were no more Xmas truces, but still a lot of smaller peaceful events.

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29 km, among others:
- Pool of Peace
- Xmas Truce Memorial
- Ploegsteert Wood
- Island of Ireland Peace Park

€ 105

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the end of a war

After the war comes the necessary processing of that war. The cemeteries and monuments in the Westhoek are an essential part of this process. On the one hand they relieved an immediate great need, but on the other hand they also reflect the way people wanted to remember the war. Are they peace or war monuments?

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37 km, among others:
- New Irish Farm Cemetery
- Soldatenfriedhof Langemark
- Tyne Cot Cemetery
- Nécropole St. Charles de Potyze
- Menin Gate Memorial

€ 105

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exploring the area

"I must go over the ground again,"  Edmund Blunden wrote in his memoirs. Today that is still an invitation to go out into the former war landscape. The worksheets below can help you on this exploration.

Menin Gate

Worksheet for a visit to the Menin Gate.

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a British cemetery

Worksheet for a visit to a British cemetery (no specific site is focused on).

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St-Charles-de-Potyze

Worksheet for a visit to the French military cemetery of Ypres (Zonnebeekseweg, 8900 Ypres).

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Soldatenfriedhof Langemark

Worksheet for a visit to the German military cemetery of Langemark (Klerkenstraat, 8920 Langemark-Poelkapelle).lle).

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