Program

temporary exhibitions

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1 February 2023 - 31 May 2023

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 ...

Explosions near the Museum
18 May 2023 - 30 June 2023

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 ...

vern-event
16 September 2023 - 17 September 2023

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

FlemishLandscape_01
26 January 2023

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 ...

Lawrence_01
2 March 2023

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 ...

British West Indies Regiment badge
30 March 2023

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 ...

Nikita Kadan
26 September 2023

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 ...

polen_ov
5 October 2023

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 - ...

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12 October 2023

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 ...

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23 November 2023

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 ...