'Flugt' Museum
The story of being a refugee can hardly be told more appropriately than in the Oksbøl camp, which after World War II housed no less than 35,000 Germans who were fleeing the Red Army's fierce attack on Nazi Germany in the final months of the war.
At Flugt – Refugee Museum of Denmark, you can gain a nuanced insight into life as a refugee in various places worldwide, both past and present, through evocative stories. Stories that give voice and face to the people who are or have been stranded in no man's land without a place they can call home.
Forud for museets åbning i 2022 lå et stort arbejde i at få bragt fortællingerne til live og binde en rød tråd til museets bygninger, der oprindeligt har fungeret som Oksbøllejrens hospital, og som Bjarke Ingels Group har stået for at transformere om til et moderne museum.
Dutch Tinker Imagineers has been responsible for the exhibition architecture on the project in close collaboration with the curators of the Varde Museums. Stouenborg has provided technical advice on the experience design and delivered all technical and audiovisual solutions for the museum's permanent exhibitions.
During its creation, Stouenborg drew on experience with storytelling from the world of theatre, as the narrative element is the core of the museum and thus crucial for the choice of technical solutions.
The exhibitions are located in nine rooms, where, using sound, light and images, they have played theatrically with building moods that arouse emotions, identification and take the viewer on the journeys that the exhibition's protagonists, the refugees themselves, have undergone.
The technical installations consist of, among other things, an extensive number of projections of videos and images, which are carefully synchronized and integrated into the various elements of the exhibition, while light and shadows stage different moods that appeal to contemplation and reflection. The museum also offers an outdoor audio walk, where you can follow in the footsteps of the German refugees.
Previously, Stouenborg has also worked on integrating AV, sound and lighting at other museums such as the Nick Cave exhibition in Copenhagen or The old town in Aarhus.