The In Flanders Fields Museum is Belgium's largest and most well-known museum from the First World War.  It is located in the center of Ieper.

The battle of Passchendaele raged outside of Ieper from June to November 1917. Over 300,000 soldiers of the British Empire and over 260,000 Germans were casualties of this terrible battle. The Memorial Museum Paesschendaele tells their story in the broader context of the broader history of the fighting around Ieper during WWII.  It includes reconstructed trenches and dugouts to help the visitor "feel" what the war was like for the men who served and died there.  It also includes an "America House" highlighting the American contribution in WWI and an American section in the "poppy garden."

The Museum Hooge Crater is on a site where extensive mine warfare took place. In addition to explaining mine warfare, the museum has an interesting collection of weapons and vehicles from the war, including a German tri-plane.

This museum is owned by the Schier family.  When Mr. Schier returned to his ruined property in 1919, it was criss-crossed with trenches, shell holes, and artifacts from the war.  Schier decided to leave the ground as it was and turn it into a museum.  He built a small building, started collecting artifacts.  He even began giving battlefield tours to the first groups of tourists in the 1920s, mostly soldiers and relatives of the dead.  In the interwar period, the museum was quite famous.  Herman Goering himself came to see it during the Second World War.  Today, it still contains the artifacts that Schier collected, and the trenches are still preserved.  It also has some very interesting 3-D viewing machines which date from the interwar period.  It is situated three miles east of Ieper on the road leading to the Hill 62 Canadian War Memorial and the Sanctuary Wood British cemetery. The museum does not have a website.

The Bastogne War Museum is located at the Mardasson Monument in Bastogne.  This newly built museum offers visitors an interactive look at the Battle of the Bulge using modern technology.  

The Bastogne Barracks is located at the site where General McAullife had his headquarters during the Battle of the Bulge.  You can visit the actual room where the famous Christmas dinner took place, and where McAullife uttered the word "NUTS!".  The site also contains one of the most impressive collections of WWII military vehicles ever assembled.  The site is owned and maintained by the Belgian military.  Visit their website to book a tour!

The 101st Airborn Division Museum is located in a historic building in the center of Bastogne.  It not only tells tells the story of the 101st Airborne Division and the other units that fought in and around Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, but it also gives a sense of what life was like for the civilians who lived in their basements while the battle raged above them.  

The Baugnez 44 Historical Centre is an excellent commercial museum located near the site of the Nazi Massacre of American POW’s in December of 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. It tells the story of the war from the perspective of both the soldiers and the civilians in Belgium via an informative audio guide. You will learn a lot from visiting this museum.

The Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History of Belgium is Belgium's national military history museum.  It traces Belgium's military history from the founding of the country through to the current day.  It has a very large collection of WWI and WWII tanks and aircraft, as well as artefacts dating from the Napoleonic period.  If you are in Brussels and are interestd in military history, the museum is very much worth a visit.  

During WWII, Fort Breendonk was a Nazi conentration camp for political prisoners.  While it was not a death camp like the more famous concentration camps in the east of Europe, it was a place of torture and death for the Belgians who fell afoul of the Nazi regime during the war.  It is one of our most highly recommended visits to learn about the unspeakable acts committed by the Nazi regime.