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BIG-designed refugee museum opens in Denmark

By 2022-06-30T06:00:00

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The practice has adapted and extended one of the refugee camp’s few remaining structures - a hospital building - into a 1,600 m2 museum dedicated to displaced humans

In the spring of 1945, Second World War was coming to an end. Borders in eastern Europe were newly determined and 12 million German civilians were forced to leave their homes.

Operation Hannibal aided refugees in their attempt to flee, transporting them from Poland to Denmark by sea.

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