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The first floor up is divided into several rooms, which you'll tour counterclockwise. The
White Room, filled with rusty crampons, wire-cutters, pickaxes, and shovels, explains win-
tertime conditions at the front. What looks like a bear trap was actually used to trap enemy
soldiers. The Room of the Rear shows the day-to-day activities away from the front line,
fromsupplyingtroopstomoremundaneactivities(milkingcows,washingclothes,gettinga
shave, lifting weights, playing with a dog). The Black Room is the museum's most somber,
commemorating the more than one million casualties of the So
č
a Front. These heartbreak-
ing exhibits honor the common people whose bodies fertilized the battlefields of Europe.
Horrific images of war injuries are juxtaposed with a display of medals earned—prompting
thequestion,wasitworthit?Thelittlealtarwaspurchasedbyschoolchildren,whosentitto
the front to offer the troops some solace.
Throughthedoormarked
The Krn Range Room
(alsoonthefirstfloorup),passthesmall
model of the mountaintop war zone and find your way to the Kobarid Rooms, which trace
the history of this region from antiquity to today. High on the wall, look for the timelines
explaining the area's turbulent past. The one in the second room shows wave after wave of
invaders(includingOttomans,Habsburgs,andNapoleon).Inthenextroom,aboveadisplay
casewithmilitaryuniforms,anothertimelineshowsthemanyflagsthatflewoverKobarid's
main square during the 20th century alone.
Onthetopfloor,acrossfromtheroomwherethefilmplays(describedabove),you'llsee
a giant model of the surrounding mountains, painstakingly tracing the successful Austrian-
German
Blitzkrieg
attack during the Battle of Kobarid. Crawl into the small cave and press
the button to hear a patriotic song about a soldier, who reads a letter he's written to his fam-
ily about the conditions here.
