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Museum of Hospitality Competition
Amersfoort Architecture Competition: Belgium Design Contest – design by Matthijs la Roi Architect
5 Jan 2017
Belgian Monument Competition Winner
?Museum of Hospitality? by Matthijs la Roi
Location: Belgenlaan 9, 3818 ZJ Amersfoort, the Netherlands
?Museum of Hospitality? is a winning design proposal for the Belgian monument competition by London based Dutch architect, Matthijs la Roi.

The museum will be built next to the current Belgian monument in the town of Amersfoort, Netherlands. The ambition of the museum is to enhance the current World War One monument into a symbol of hospitality for refugees in the Netherlands.
At the end of World War I, Belgium gifted a monument to the Netherlands in remembrance of the benevolent internment of Belgian soldiers during the war. Despite the fact that the monument is the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, its existence is relatively unknown by the Dutch citizens. The main reason is that the First World War barely lives in the Netherlands and is thus hardly remembered. It is practically forgotten that one million Belgians fled to neutral Netherlands at the beginning of the war in 1914.

The ?Museum of Hospitality? acts as an exhibition pavilion next to the current monument. It tells the story of the Belgian refugees during World War I with the intention of drawing parallels to today?s refug...