Hooge Crater Museum

Hooge is a small village on the Menin Road, the scene of fierce fighting between Allied and Central forces for three years that left it completely destroyed. To break the stalemate, German forces blew three large craters here in June 1916.

Step inside the Hooge Crater Museum, housed in the former Hooge Chateau on one of the most fiercely contested sites of the Ypres Salient. A multiple winner of Best Private Museum in Belgium, it holds an extensive collection of weapons, equipment and photographs, alongside life-sized reconstructions of German bunkers and British trenches that bring the realities of the Western Front to life.

Your group can also follow the museum's new GCSE History trail, created by British history teachers and GCSE examiners and built around the Edexcel "Medicine Through Time" study.

The educational package includes: 

• Introduction: Hooge Crater and the Great War 

• Visit: Hooge Crater Museum • New exhibition: Medical evacuation in WWI & The Front Eye 

• GCSE History 'Medicine Trough Time' Trail (documents in .pdf) 

• Experience box with helmets and artifacts 

• Free visitor centre and free walk-app to the Crater Forest 

• Visit to Hooge Crater Cemetery (6.000 graves) with worksheets, questions and stories about soldiers buried in this cemetery (documents in .pdf)

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You can also add a museum guide and a guided trench visit with views across Ypres.