The Refugee Museum of Denmark (FLUGT) has officially opened its doors after a formal inauguration ceremony in the presence of Queen Margrethe II. Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and exhibition designer\u00a0Tinker Imagineers are at the helm of the museum, which has opened on the site of Denmark\u2019s largest refugee camp from...
BIG has converted and extended buildings at a Second World War Danish refugee camp to create the new Refugee Museum of Denmark
The new museum aims to share the stories of refugees worldwide, and portrays challenges through an exploration of archeology and the gathering of local historical knowledge. For BIG, which rethought and extended the camp’s original hospital building to create the new space, the project is its second for the museum’s operator Vardemuseerne, after the opening of the west coast of Denmark’s Tirpitz Museum.
The two buildings that originally contained the former hospital are connected by soft curves, creating an undulating and welcome silhouette. An amalgamation of textures, from steel to the red bricks of the original hospital building and a curved wall of glass, imbues the space with a rich tactility.
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