The Ypres Salient
Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood) Museum
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The Ypres Salient
Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood) Museum
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Ypres Salient MuseumsMap LocationsIn Flanders Fields Hill 62 Hooge Crater Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 Messines Talbot House (Toc H) Ypres Salient MuseumsMap LocationsIn Flanders Fields Hill 62 Hooge Crater Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 Messines Talbot House (Toc H) The Ypres SalientThe Ypres SalientMap Battles Ypres/Ieper Poperinge Museums Cemeteries Accommodation 1914-1918 ReferenceThe Western FrontThe Ypres Salient Second Battle of Ypres The Somme War Graves Tracing relatives Resources & Links Bibliography Remembering Poppy Umbrella Hear Last Post 'In Flanders Fields' Armistice Day in Ypres Flanders Memorial Poppy Gardens of Remembrance InterpretationsPoemsAbout the siteWho we areRembrella  |
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The museum collection contains equipment removed from the battlefield in the vicinity. There is a room with many photographs on the walls and a large, rare collection of three dimensional photo images in viewing boxes. A selection of books, postcards and memorabilia is for sale. FacilitiesCafé and toilets. LocationLeave Ieper (Ypres) via its eastern gate (Menin Gate). At the traffic lights turn right onto the Ieper-Menen road (Menin Road). In approximately 3 kilomtres take a right turn signposted to Sanctuary Wood (Hill 62) museum.
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museum privately owned by the grandson of the farmer, who reclaimed his
land after the war. Original British trenches in a small section of the
wood, known to the British Army as Sanctuary Wood, have been preserved
as they were found after the war. In the 1980s a tunnel was discovered.
More recently the trenches have been renovated in places.
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