Presentation of the Westfront museum - 3D video

Do you know the West Front Museum?
It is set in Nieuwpoort, a small resort town on the Belgian coast.
In October 1914, the 4th German army was marching towards that place.
The French army stood nearby and tried to stop the Germans with its artillery. But it didn't work. The Belgians proposed the French Marshall Foch to open the lock system nicknamed "the Goose Leg" and flood the whole area to stop the German Army's progression.
At first, the French Marshall was doubtful, but in the end, he accepted. This move allowed the allied to intensify their defence and to block the enemy for more than a week.
This event is recorded in the format of a panorama painting by the Belgian painter Alfred Bastien. Even though this work is now badly damaged - and its remnants now preserved in the Royal Army & History Museum in Brussels - it has been partially digitized. It is now part of a projection on a semi-circular screen that evokes the former panorama.
Bastien's painting was an astonishing 115-meter long by 14-meter breath and inspired by the famous London Panorama, painted by Robert Barker in 1787.
In this museum, you will also find props and weapons, helmets and photographs, scale models of the lock system and weird pieces of propaganda like an astray in the shape of the Manneken Piss, the famous statue from Brussels, peeing to drown the German army in an original inundation of his own...
This immersive video will show you three different areas in this particular place. First, the top of the King Albert Monument, from which we have an astonishing view on the surrounding areas, where the fields were flooded in October 1914. Then, we'll explore the centre of the museum itself, with its semi-circular screen on which parts of Alfred Bastien's painting are projected. And, finally, one room of the museum where you will find very rare and touching photographs taken during or just after the war, as well as weird or funny pieces of propaganda, like the Manneken Piss or a the sketch of a Uhlan, one of those fierce German soldiers, alone in the middle of the water, on the Yser Plain.