Cold War Museum in Rold Forest, Danish Architecture, Visitors Experience Development, Images
REGAN Vest ? The Danish Cold War Museum in Jutland
4 Feb 2020
Cold War Museum at Nordjyllands Historiske Museum
Design: AART architects with SLA, Niras and Thøgersen & Stouby
Location: Røde Møllevej 22, Skørping, Rold Forest, Jutland, Jutland, Denmark

Together with SLA, Niras and Thøgersen & Stouby as sub-advisors, the Danish architecture firm AART has won the prestigious competition to design the new Danish Cold War Museum in Rold Skov in Northern Jutland. The museum has been designed to unfold the story of one of Denmark?s best kept secrets ? the Cold War bunker REGAN Vest that was secretly built in the 1960s during the Cold War to house the government and monarch in case of a nuclear war. For more than four decades the underground bunker was kept a state secret. However, now the Historical Museum of Northern Jutland will open the bunker, so the public will be able to experience the Cold War from a new perspective. In that connection, AART will design the visitor and exhibition building ? with the 5,500 square metre nuclear-proof bunker as the ultimate focal point.

Black boxes

On the surface, the visitor and exhibition building will be the only visible manifestation of the new Cold War museum. Built as four black boxes, the building is tucked deep inside the forest. Solid and reclusive, the boxes appear in the forest as almost hermetically sealed display cases w...