The Ypres Salient
Hooge Crater Museum, Hooge
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The Ypres Salient
Hooge Crater Museum, Hooge
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FacilitiesBooks and postcards are on sale at the shop. There is a self-service cafeteria seating 106, with additional seating for 50 outside on the terrace. There are good toilets. Groups wishing to eat their packed lunches in the cafeteria are also welcome to do so at a group rate of 3 Euros per person (this includes a drink from the cafeteria). For further details visit the website for Hooge Crater Museum. LocationLeave Ieper (Ypres) via its eastern gate (Menin Gate). At the traffic lights turn right onto the Ieper-Menen road (Menin Road). The museum is located approximately 4 kilometres east of Ypres on the north side of the Menin Road in the converted Hooge chapel. Opening HoursTuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Wednesday: 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Closed: Monday AdmissionAdult: € 3,00 Child: € 1,50 Groups: € 1,50 per person; for a museum visit & eating own packed lunch in the cafeteria € 3,00 per person. Museum Hooge Crater, Meenseweg 467, B-8902 Zillebeke-Ieper, Belgium Telephone +32 (0)57 46 84 46 Fax +32 (0)57 46 87 12 Acknowledgments Photograph of Hooge Crater Museum courtesy of www.hoogecrater.com Copyright Joanna Legg & Graham Parker © 2004 All rights reserved |
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private museum owned by Albrecht De Smul, located in a renovated chapel
and small school on the Menin Road at Hooge. This excellent museum was
opened in 1994 and has expanded the display of its valuable collection
over the past ten years. It contains a unique collection of First World
War uniforms, displays and artefacts.