FLUGT Refugee Museum of Denmark Opens in Former Camp

The FLUGT – Refugee Museum of Denmark, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, opens in Oksbøl, Denmark, to preserve the memory of German refugees who fled to Denmark after WWII. Between 1945 and 1948, Oksbøl housed 35,000 German civilians displaced by the Red Army's advance, becoming Denmark's fifth-largest city. The museum occupies two wings of a former hospital, connected by a new 500-square-meter circular Corten steel structure with a wooden interior and courtyard. The German government donated 10 million Danish kroner, and the Schleswig-Holstein government donated 750,000 kroner. The site includes a cemetery in Aal Plantage forest, visited annually by 20,000 descendants. The camp operated until December 15, 1948. The museum features documentary exhibitions, a cinema, café, educational spaces, and a restaurant.