Visit Vesterhavet Guide 2025 - Flipbook - Side 87
It wasn’t exactly in the cards that two international museums designed by world-renowned
architect Bjarke Ingels would be built on
Jutland’s west coast. But for Claus Kjeld Jensen,
the visionary director of the Varde Museums,
it was important that the West Coast’s incredible stories not only be told, but be brought to
life. Thus, in 2017, the Varde Museums created
the acclaimed museum attraction, Tirpitz in
Blåvand. Here, 20,000 years of West Coast history
are conveyed in a spectacular building that
combines the original Tirpitz bunker from World
War II in state-of-the-art architecture. Since the
opening, more than one million guests have
been immersed in the construction and the
lively and fantastic tales it houses..
In the summer of 2021, another spectacular
Jensen-headed museum followed, FLUGT – Refugee Museum of Denmark The museum was
built in the original buildings from what used
to be Denmark’s largest refugee camp. FLUGT
tells the story of the 35,000 German refugees
who lived in Oksbøllejren and of refugees of all
periods. Just as at Tirpitz, the architecture isn’t
just a backdrop, it’s part of the story.
FLUGT Refugee Museum of Denmark s. 79
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