Denmark’s Refugee Museum is born from BIG’s adaptive reuse of a WWII camp hospital
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Præstegaardsvej 21, 6840 Oksbøl, Denmark
Architecture, Design
Client
Collaboration
Ingeniør’ne, Tinker Imagineers, BIG Landscape, BIG Ideas, Gade & Mortensen Akustik, HB Trapper
Floor Area
1,600 sq-m
The project made the former healthcare space – located on the grounds of Denmark’s largest WWII refugee camp – fit for size for the museum, Flugt.
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