ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses many of the museums which also serve as representational sites of history bound up with the remembrances associated with a particular town or village. The criteria for the intended purpose of a site of historic memory play an important role in the development of form and content. Many of the towns and villages in which the museums dedicated to the Great War are situated are also living spaces in which an embedded history remains, even outside commemoration days or ritual practice. For the Kingdom of Belgium, the history of the war is articulated at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History (KLM) in Brussels. The chapter analyzes the place of the museum within the space of both the rural and the urban memorial landscape, moving from Nieuwpoort in the north and following the IJzer and Ieper rivers as the lines of the Western Front moved to the south in Flanders and into Wallonia.
