Summary

Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) are playing a key role in the summer exhibition wONDERLAND at the Yper Museum. Thanks to interdisciplinary research on more than 1,000 excavated skeletons, they have succeeded in giving the anonymous medieval city dweller a face and a voice once again after centuries. During World War I, Ypres was virtually razed to the ground, with the entire city archive in the cloth halls—where the museum is now housed—going up in flames. For decades, historians were left in the dark.

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