Flugt – Refugee Museum of Denmark, Danish Building, Architecture Photos, Architects,
Flugt – Refugee Museum of Denmark in Jutland
28 June 2022
Design: BIG architects
Location: Oksbøl, Southern Jutland, Denmark

Photos: Rasmus Hjortshoj
Refugee Museum of Denmark
Located at the site of Denmark?s largest Refugee camp from World War II, Flugt, gives a voice and a face to refugees worldwide and captures the universal challenges, emotions, spirit and stories shared by displaced humans. FLUGT is BIG?s second museum for Vardemuseerne: a local institution dedicated to archaeology, dissemination, and collection of historical knowledge about the region. BIG has adapted and extended one of the camp?s few remaining structures ? a hospital building ? into a 1,600 m2 museum.
At its peak, the camp became the fifth-largest city of Denmark at the time. Today, little of the camp in Oksbøl remains, but the story of arriving at the doorstep of a new country is as relevant as ever. The former hospital, which is transformed into FLUGT, is comprised of two elongated buildings.

BIG has connected the two buildings architecturally and historically by adding a soft curve-shaped volume which brings 500 sqm of additional space to the museum and creates a welcoming structure, visible from afar.

The curve is gently pulled towards the street to create an inviting arrival moment for the museum visitors. Clad in Corten steel, the structure feels at home along the red bricks of the form...