Ieper - The Zonnebeke Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 - Library and Archive
Toen jullie naar het front trokken, jullie levende helden en nu liggen jullie op de heuvel, waar alleen papavers bloeien – Jan Theunink
Then you went to the front, you living heroes and now you are on the hill, where only poppies bloom – Jan Theunink
The renewed Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 (MMP1917) opened its doors in April 2004 and became a nationally recognised museum in 2008.
The MMP1917 is located in an environment that was a major battlefield in the First World War and which has since been rebuilt. In Zonnebeke, of which Passchendaele is a sub-municipality, you will also find many traces of the Great War. The cemeteries and monuments make the struggle and suffering of the military and civilians tangible. The smaller heritage also speaks of the war past: bunkers, memorials, reconstructed architecture etc. and the landscape itself still testifies to that which played out here for four long years.
Besides the MMP1917 and the chateau park, which houses the museum, there are two important war sites in Zonnebeke: Tyne Cot Cemetery and the Polygon Wood. Footpaths connect the museum to these locations: they are part of ‘The Legacy of Passchendaele’ project. The many other Zonnebeke war relics can be discovered on the ‘Legacy’ cycle route.
Ieper - The Zonnebeke Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 - Library and Archive
Toen jullie naar het front trokken, jullie levende helden en nu liggen jullie op de heuvel, waar alleen papavers bloeien – Jan Theunink
Then you went to the front, you living heroes and now you are on the hill, where only poppies bloom – Jan Theunink
The renewed Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 (MMP1917) opened its doors in April 2004 and became a nationally recognised museum in 2008.
The MMP1917 is located in an environment that was a major battlefield in the First World War and which has since been rebuilt. In Zonnebeke, of which Passchendaele is a sub-municipality, you will also find many traces of the Great War. The cemeteries and monuments make the struggle and suffering of the military and civilians tangible. The smaller heritage also speaks of the war past: bunkers, memorials, reconstructed architecture etc. and the landscape itself still testifies to that which played out here for four long years.
Besides the MMP1917 and the chateau park, which houses the museum, there are two important war sites in Zonnebeke: Tyne Cot Cemetery and the Polygon Wood. Footpaths connect the museum to these locations: they are part of ‘The Legacy of Passchendaele’ project. The many other Zonnebeke war relics can be discovered on the ‘Legacy’ cycle route.