An eventful meeting with Danish history: AART wins the competition for a new Danish museum
With a local and engaging orchestration of our common history, Denmark’s upcoming museum, The Egtved Girl’s World, will rethink the dissemination of the Egtved Girl, who is one of Denmark’s best-preserved finds from the Bronze Age. Out of 42 proposals, AART’s project proposal for the museum has been chosen as the winner of the open ideas competition, arranged by Vejle Municipality and Vejle Museums in August.
The Egtved Girl gives a unique insight into Danish history, which will contribute to expanding our understanding of the Bronze Age and the life which was taking place in Denmark at that time. Now, a new Danish museum will rethink the dissemination of the history, and as of December 20th 2022, Vejle Municipality and Vejle Museums has announced the winning project, developed by AART, chosen by a unanimous judging panel.
The new museum – Egtvedpigens Verden (The Egtved Girl’s World) – is both a building and landscape project that will be placed gently in the protected culture landscapes at the Egtved Girl’s grave in Egtved. The vision of the project, which will replace the current, small exhibition building on the location, is to create an innovative museum where both children and adults through a mix of play, movement and different experiences will learn about the Egtved Girl and thus our common nature and culture history. The aim of the new museum is to triple the annual visitor numbers and welcome more than 40,000 guests a year.
With the winning proposal, AART is underlining their leading position in the development of culture buildings, with the addition of the Egtved Girl’s World to the list of significant cultural heritage projects that AART is currently working on across Scandinavia – incl. Denmark’s new Cold War Museum REGAN Vest, which will open in February 2023, as well as the new Viking Age Museum in Oslo. Given the Conservation Board’s approval of the final project, the Egtved Girl’s World is expected to be completed by 2023/2024.
