TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
TIPRITZ acts as a gentle counterbalance to the dramatic war history of the site in Blåvand on the west coast of Denmark
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
TIRPITZ – a sanctuary in the sand that acts as a gentle counterbalance to the dramatic war history of the site in Blåvand on the west coast of Denmark.
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Laurian Ghinitoiu
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Central courtyard of TIRPITZ
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Colin John Seymour
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Army of Concrete tells the human stories in the shadow of Hitler's enormous defense project, the Atlantic Wall
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
West Coast Stories tells 100,000 years of west coast history and is turned into a nighttime 4D theatre twice an hour.
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
At the heart of West Coast Stories is a huge life boat stranded in a sea of dunes
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Gold of the West Coast is Western Europe's most comprehensive exhibition of amber, presented in an enchanting amber forest
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Along with its changing colours and sounds, the atmosphere of the Gold of the Westcoast room alternates between warm and cold: references to the history of amber.
Photo credit:
Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Treasure room of Gold of the Westcoast
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
In the abstract, fairy-tale trees, the visitors will discover amber enclosures that are millions of years old, artefacts, and many stories.
Photo credit:
Mike Bink Photography
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TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Visitors discover artefacts and many stories in the fairy-tale trees of the amber gallery (Gold of the Westcoast)
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
From the sunken galleries, visitors are able to walk into the historic bunker, which grounds the tale of an impressive war machine.
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
In the dark visitors can play with light and activate shadow plays that reveal how the bunker should have functioned.
Photo credit:
Erik Bär, Tinker imagineers
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Spotlight in the original Tirpitz bunker
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Once you enter the concrete bunkers, you step into the personal spaces of the Danes and Germans who worked and lived around the Atlantikwall.
Photo credit:
Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Unruly bunker landscape of Army of Concrete
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
The room of Anna at the Army of Concrete, the girl who had a child with a German soldier.
Photo credit:
Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
A visit to te rooms at Army of Concrete is an investigation into the black and white nature of war and all the grey areas in between.
Photo credit:
Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Army of Concrete
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
In Army of Concrete you’ll discover the bunkers of the Atlantic Wall, but also the people that are strongly connected to them
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Mike Bink Photography
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TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
When night falls at West Coast Stories visitors are taken on an epic journey
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Details of the dunes at the night mode of West Coast Stories
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Illuminated detail of West Coast Stories show
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
The day time mode of West Coast Stories shows many objects and their stories
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Mike Bink Photography
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
The central courtyard allows access into the four underground gallery spaces that have an abundance of daylight even though they are literally carved into the sand.
Photo credit:
Rasmus Hjortshoj
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Central room inside the TIRPITZ museum
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Rasmus Hjortshoj
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Temporary exhibition room
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Colin John Seymour
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
The surrounding heath-lined pathways cut into the dunes from all sides descending to meet in a central clearing, bringing daylight and air into the heart of the complex.
Photo credit:
Colin John Seymour
TIRPITZ, a 'Hidden Museum' on Danish West Coast
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Tinker imagineers
Aerial view of TIRPITZ
Photo credit:
Rasmus Bendix
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