Long Max Museum

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Long Max Museum
Lange Max Museum in Koekelare
Long Max Museum
Data
place Site Lange Max , Clevenstraat 2, B 8680 Koekelare , Belgium
Art
opening October 2014
management
Website
Langer Max cannon (Lange Max Museum)
Battery Pomerania - the gun is in the center of the picture
38-cm "Langer Max" by Koekelare (Leugenboom)

The Lange Max Museum ("LMM") is a Belgian military museum dedicated to the First World War in Koekelare in Flanders. It is named after the German 38 cm SK L / 45 gun (" Langer Max "), of which the remains of a position - the former Pommern battery - have been preserved near the museum site. The museum focuses on the German occupation of Koekelare and Belgium during the First World War and focuses on the German side of the war. This sets it apart from most Belgian World War I museums, which are dedicated to an Allied perspective and one-sidedly thematize the occupation - whereas everyday life between occupiers and occupied is mostly neglected.

museum

The opening took place in October 2014 by the Prime Minister of Flanders , Geert Bourgeois . The Lange Max Museum is located on the site of a farm, on which other protected monuments can be seen: the former bakery and canteen, as well as the actual artillery platform, with which Dunkirk and Ypres were also shot at. The museum offers (audio) tours in Dutch, German, French and English.

Surroundings

The Käthe Kollwitz Museum is about 3 km away. About 6 km from the museum is the German military cemetery near Vladslo , where over 25,000 German soldiers who died in the First World War found their final resting place.

Temporary exhibition

  • Temporary exhibition 2016 (2016–2017): "The effects of the flood on German warfare" (NL: "De gevolgen van de onderwaterzetting voor de Duitse oorlogsvoering")
  • Temporary exhibition 2017 (2017-2018): "The III. Battle of Flanders in our area" (NL: "De III. Battle of Flanders in onze regio")

Prizes and awards

  • 2014: Culture Prize ( Gerdi Staelens , for Lange Max Museum)
  • 2015: Raf Seys Prize
  • 2015: Nomination for the Heritage Prize 2015 West Flanders (one of the 20 projects selected from the 500 submissions).
  • 2016: Third best museum in Belgium

Web links

Commons : Lange Max Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

credentials

  • Raf Seys, Commeine L .: Lange Max: het groot kanon van Leugenboom , Devriendt, Koekelare, 192 p.
  1. ^ (NL) Cultuurprijs voor werk aan nieuwe Lange Max Museum
  2. ↑ (NL) First RAF SEYS PRIJS gaat naar de Lange Max! ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ (NL) Erfgoedprijs 2015: de winnaars
  4. ↑ De 10 best musea - België. No. 3 - Lange Max Museum - 01/09/2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 0.8 ″  N , 2 ° 58 ′ 56.3 ″  E