In Ypres there are plenty of tours and other ways to connect with the horrendous events that took place in this area a little over 100 years ago. We chose to visit this small museum and are very glad we did. The exhibits are convincingly displayed with some excellent dioramas and an informative recorded commentary. The dugouts give a real if slightly sanitised idea of what life was like underground. The trenches, although of course representations of the real thing, have been carefully created with much attention to detail. The new immersive experience was especially moving. Well worth the money and effort.

A wonderful museum set in the grounds of the chateau where fierce fighting took place. The memorial gardens in the shape of poppies incorporating the different nations who fought in the ‘Great War’ are poignant and different. The interesting young man at the booking desk told us to visit the church and tower. The tower has an excellent model depicting the trenches/tunnels which were dug under the church by the British during the War although it would be better if it were turned around. The spiral staircases are not for the faint hearted and beware the bells!

Top Museum. When paying on admission you’re given a small speaker that personally talks you through the exhibition as you walk through, explains what you’re looking at in each section. Museum was very busy when we were there on a Wednesday afternoon, but still plenty of room to venture around. As well as all the usual displays of artefacts, weapons, uniforms & personal equipment, down some stairs you enter ‘below’ the trenches & a subterranean experience. With sounds of the guns above you walk through the different rooms, stores, sleeping quarters & officers shelters. Really nicely done. Then back upstairs again to more exhibits, before going outside and wandering through a reconstructed trench system with dugouts & shelters. Again all explained on the mini speaker. Would 100% recommend this museum, set in a beautiful park area, with an excellent cafe restaurant just next door. The best WW1 museum we visited in the Ypres area & probably one of the best anywhere else.

Following our visit to Passchendaele Museum, I have no doubts that it is the best museum of World War I, you can find in any place on our planet. The museum is located in a place that was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I, but the collection covers the entire period of the conflict, all armies, all weapons and all aspects of this horrible conflict. I have visited it with my teenager son - World War I was a large part of his history curriculum in year 10. After visiting the Passchendaele Museum, we agreed that a visit there was much better than hundreds of hours of history in school, and most importantly, it stayed with visitor for years.