Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: poppies -- The museums -- The memory and history of the Great War -- Outline of the book -- Notes -- 2. What remains of the country: the war in Belgium -- The invasion of Belgium -- The Wacht aan de IJzer -- The Ieper Salient -- The Battle of Passchendaele -- Comines-Warneton region -- Autumn 1918 -- Notes -- 3. Planning the centennial -- The centennial -- The politics of planning for the centenary -- The Flanders Fields Declaration -- Remembrance and history of the war -- Federal initiatives -- Regional initiatives -- Provincial initiatives -- Municipal initiatives -- Cross-national commemoration -- The museums -- Peace -- Notes -- 4. Site-specificity and the architecture of remembrance -- From Nieuwpoort to Diksmuide: the Belgian sector -- Westfront Nieuwpoort Visitor Centre -- Vrij Belgïe: behind the Belgian front line -- Lange Max: Flemish and Germans -- The Museum aan de IJzer -- Dodengang: the Belgian walk of death -- The Ieper Salient -- Memorial Museum Passchendaele, 14-18, Zonnebeke -- Beyond Flanders Fields -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Historical or memorial site: the museum as ruin -- The destruction of community -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Immersion: trench and reenactment strategies -- Witness accounts -- In the trenches -- War experiences: reenactments and living history -- Student soldiers: the Battle of Broodseinde in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7. Expression and document: art in the war museum -- Oorlogsgetuige (artists in the time of war) -- A contemporary turn -- Trench art: art and relics of the Great War -- 2018 -- Notes -- 8. The exhibition narrative: an object-centered practice -- The 'little' people -- The object and the archive -- Photographic histories