In Flanders Fields Museum
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The
In Flanders Fields Museum is a museum in
Ypres (Ieper),
Belgium, dedicated to the study of the
First World War. It occupies the second floor of the
Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) on the market square in the city centre. The building was largely destroyed by artillery during the war, but was afterwards reconstructed. In 1998 the original
Ypres Salient Memorial Museum was refurbished and renamed In Flanders Fields Museum after the
famous poem by Canadian
John McCrae. Following a period of closure, the museum reopened on 11 June 2012. The curator,
Piet Chielens, is a World War I historian.
The museum does not set out to glorify war, but to suggest its futility, particularly as seen in the West Flanders front region in World War I.
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