In the 1965 year, after 13 years, the construction of a new, magnificent monument was completed. The 84-meters tower, the highest monument of peace in Europe, houses an interesting museum (War, Peace, Flemish emancipation). Many war exhibits, such as weapons or uniforms, were gathered on the 22 floors. Historical photos show the suffering of soldiers and civilians. Visiting the museum begins with entering the top of the building. From its terrace there is a wonderful view of the whole region from Nieuwpoort to Passchendaele, Ypres, Poperinge and Ploegsteert.

The building in which this magnificent museum is located was designed in the year 1930 by Joseph Vierin.  
The museum offers rich collections of works of Belgian artists. What attracts a lot of visitors is undoubtedly the world-famous collection of Flemish primitives, such as: Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes, or Gerard David.

There are also paintings by Renaissance and Baroque artists, a dozen works from neoclassical times and realism, the most important works of symbolists and modernists, outstanding works of Flemish expressionists such as Permeke, De Smet, Van den Berhge, Brusselmans or Tygat, and a wide selection of modern art (after 1945 year).

They are also the creators of the Renaissance of the North, which is an outstanding version of the Renaissance, which was born on the other side of the Alps, in Italy. Robert Campin is a forerunner of this style in then Netherlands and his most eminent representatives were, among others:

In Dutch painting of this period religious themes dominate. The background plays a very important role, filled with vast landscapes, architecture and city views. You can see the extraordinary attention to detail when presenting the interiors of houses, clothes of figures, fabrics, animals. The basic feature of the background is the far-reaching autonomy, spatiality and naturalism of individual elements and characters placed on further planes, even when the background figure is visible in a small fragment.  

An epoch in which Art. Nouveau was the dominating style in architecture. Its main features are decorativeness, stylization, asymmetry, which manifested itself, inter alia, in the free distribution of windows, as well as in the location of the gate, which was usually located centrally, on the main axis of the building.

The buildings were given smooth, wavy lines, horseshoe or flattened arches placed above the windows, the balconies were semicircular in shape, the whole was complemented by corrugated cornices, free compositional arrangements, pastel colors, liking for floral motifs, and a significant extension of the range of materials used to make façades.

The buildings that are great examples of belle époque can be found in De Hann a lot. A small tram station, the Grand Hotel Belle Vue, to which often came for a cup of tea Albert Einstein, during his stay in Flanders, after escaping from Nazi Germany, city hall and many private villas or hotels.