Hooge Crater Museum, Belgium

The renovated chapel and school on the Menin Road, now housing the Hooge Crater Museum.

The Hooge Crater museum was opened by Roger and Rosita de Smul in 1994 in a renovated chapel and small school on the Ypres-Menin Road. Since then the museum has expanded several times and now holds many of the finest WWI collections in the area. It contains a unique collection of First World War uniforms, displays and military artefacts.

Since Roger's retirement the museum is under the management of Nick and Ilse from January 2009.

Facilities

Books and postcards are on sale.

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 welcome to do so at a group rate of € 3,50 per person including museum entry and a drink from the cafeteria.

Opening Hours

Tuesday - Sunday: 10.00 to 18.00 hours

Closed: Monday

Admission

Adult: € 4,50

Child: € 2,00

Groups: € 3,00 per person (minimum 20 persons);

School groups (museum entry only): € 2,00 per student

School groups (museum ticket & cafeteria): € 3,50 per student

Bookings

If you wish to book a visit or group visit please contact the museum by telephone, fax or email.

Museum Hooge Crater, Meenseweg 467, B-8902 Zillebeke-Ieper, Belgium

Telephone +32 (0)57 46 84 46

Fax +32 (0)57 46 87 12

Email info@hoogecrater.com

www.hoogecrater.com

Location

Leave 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 Hooghe chapel.

Acknowledgments

Photograph of Hooge Crater Museum courtesy of www.hoogecrater.com