The best museums in Ypres in October 2023

These are the top 5 best museums in Ypres, Belgium, ranked by their rating and popularity in 2023. Click a museum for more information about the museum, including visitor information, exhibitions and reviews.

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Looking for the best museums in Ypres? These are the best ones:

  1. In Flanders Fields Museum1

    In Flanders Fields Museum

    Ypres
    The In Flanders Fields Museum is housed in the Cloth Hall of Ypres. The museum is dedicated to the First World War and focuses on the personal stories in the larger story of the conflict that partly determined world history. The permanent exhibition highlights the leading up to the war, the invasion
  2. Bellewaerde2

    Bellewaerde

    Ypres
  3. Museum Godshuis Belle3

    Museum Godshuis Belle

    Ypres
    Museum Godshuis Belle is housed in a almshouse from 1276, which was a hospital first and later became an institution for elderly women. In the chapel, the Public Centre for Social Welfare collection is displayed, consisting paintings, sculptures and furniture. The highlight of the museum is a panel
  4. Oorlogsmuseum Hooge Crater4

    Oorlogsmuseum Hooge Crater

    Zillebeke
    War Museum Hooge Crater displays the collections of two collectors of World War I war materials. The collection includes the very extensive weaponry from the 1914-1918 war, as well as the uniforms and equipment of all armies.
  5. Yper Museum5

    Yper Museum

    Ypres
    The Yper Museum sits in a wing of the Cloth Halls, Europe's largest civic complex in neo-Gothic style. The Yper Museum brings you eleven centuries of Ypres and the Westhoek. You will discover a unique collection of badges, maps, archaeological finds, coins, lace and handicrafts and so much more. Chi

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