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TIRPITZ Museum in Jutland
Bunker Building Development in Denmark ? design by BIG
13 Jul 2017
TIRPITZ Museum
Location: Blåvand, Denmark
Design: BIG
TIRPITZ, a ‘Hidden Museum’ on Danish West Coast

photo © Rasmus Bendix
The new TIRPITZ transforms and expands a historic German WWII bunker into a groundbreaking cultural complex comprising four exhibitions within a single structure, seamlessly embedded into the protected shorelands of Blåvand in western Denmark. The construction of the 2,800 m2 ?invisible museum? expected to attract around 100,000 visitors annually.

photo © Mike Bink Photography

photo © Mike Bink Photography ?The new TIRPITZ is planned, built and furnished as a portal to the Danish West Coast?s treasure trove of hidden stories. It has been our goal to create a humble, world-class attraction surprising its visitors with new perspectives on the majestic landscape. Our guests deserve the best; with BIG?s limitless and inviting architecture and with Tinker Imagineers? wondrous and playful exhibitions, I feel we have achieved this. TIRPITZ is an incredible, one-of-a-kind experience ? violent, astonishing, dramatic, hidden ? almost invisible,? says, Claus Kjeld Jensen, Director of Varde Museum. 

 

photo © Colin John Seymour

photo © Colin John Seymour

photo © Mike Bink Photography
As an antithesis to the heavy volume of the WWIIÂ...