Event

Feniks 2020

Thematic exhibitions, public events and various hiking & cycling trails will take you along the most prominent reconstruction sites in Flanders Fields while a number of reconstruction sites will (temporarily) open their doors to visitors for the very first time.

Temporarily exhibition in the In Flanders Fields Museum:

Feniks: Reconstructing Flanders Fields

This exhibition will tell you the story of human resilience. Unique photographs from the Ypres brothers Maurice and Robert Antony report how ruined cities and ghost towns recovered. On the other hand, visitors and inhabitants had their own individual experiences. The recovery of every house and every piece of land was accompanied with feelings of joy, but also with suffering and danger. The recovery was mostly the result of the vigour and entrepreneurship of the local population. The international beau monde never missed an opportunity to stress their administration for the recovered beauty of Belgium’s “new” towns and cities.

From 7 March until 15 November 2020

Temporarily exhibition in the Yper Museum:

herSTELLINGEN (Reconstruction and Recovery)

'herSTELLINGEN' focuses on the return of the former inhabitants to Ypres after the Armistice in 1918. It tells the story of the post-war recovery in the social-cultural sphere. Through eight different themes you will discover how the local people in the region picked up the threads of life after the First World War. Each month there is a different theme with related activities.

From 21 March 2020 until 17 January 2021

Want to know more? Feniks 2020

Where?

In Flanders Fields Museum | Yper Museum 

When?

7 march 2020 - 15 November 2020

Website

https://www.flandersfields.be/nl/feniks2020/flanders-fields-museum

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