New vantage point opened, right on the frontline of WW1

For four years it was a place of devastating mine explosions and much suffering for the frontline soldiers. Their story is now also given an extra layer in the renovated museum chapel with the Front Eye.

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Niek Benoot, Hooge Crater Museum Ypres: “The layer is indeed literal and figurative. We are on the second floor in the museum. It used to be the window that brought the light in from the outside. We now look out from the inside. looking through the front eye, we see not only the Hooge Crater military cemetery, but also Hill 60 and Hill 62. We see, as it were, the front of 14-18.”

“The Front Eye brings you the answer why these hills were fought for so long for 4 years, why the small height differences were so important, why Hooge Crater played such an immense strategic role. And that right on the spot where it all happened .”