Advantages: Fascinating chronicle into the town of Ypres during World War I Disadvantages: Upsetting to see the evidence of wasted life
, civillians and soldiers alike. There is even a "tunnel" where you can experience what it might have been like in a trench in the form of noise.
I am no expert on the GreatWar but came out of the museum knowing a great deal more, and together with the trip to the War Graves it was quite a profound experience. The museum also puts everything into a wider historical context as well as the details of the war itself, which really makes you understand the causes and consequences.
CONCLUSION
In summary I would highly recommend this museum if you are in Ypres for the war graves and Menin Gate (inscribed with the names of soldiers without a grave). It certainly makes you think of the sacrifices made for us all that time ago; more so the waste of those sacrifices less than a generation later in the WWII.
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Advantages: An eye-opening experience, thoroughly absorbing Disadvantages: Might be too 'real' for some people
"INFLANDERSFIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
InFlandersfields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
InFlandersfields."
John McCrae (1872 - 1918)
INFLANDERSFIELD MUSEUM is located on the upper floor of the Cloth Hall in the Grote markt, Eiper, or YPRES.
The museum opened in 1998, replacing the dated WWI museum that had previously occupied the building. THE CLOTH HALL itself is a magnificent medieval edifice, but ...
Advantages: Personal accounts of the Great War capturing the emotions of the people who experienced it. Disadvantages: None
As the veterans of this conflict pass away so to does the living link, there are only two veterans who served in this conflict still alive and when they pass away this conflict will pass into history.
This book tells the events of the GreatWarin the words of the people who experienced it. In 1972 with the number of veterans decreasing the Imperial War museum set about interviewing ordinary men and women who had lived through the conflict. Veterans from Britain, Germany America, Australia and Canada were interviewed. It is these recordings that are used to tell the story of the GreatWar.
These are personal accounts of the war from individuals of many different backgrounds from officers, ordinary soldiers and people at home working in the factories producing munitions etc. Everyone's lives were effected in one way or another ...
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