The Exile Museum in Berlin will be created according to the design by Dorte Mandrup

Berlin – A new exile museum will be established in Berlin at the site of the former Anhalt Station in the Kreuzberg district, which will commemorate more than half a million people who fled Nazi Germany before and during World War II. The foundation preparing the project aims to open the new building in 2025. It presented the winning architectural design from an international competition, created by the Danish firm Dorte Mandrup, according to the DPA agency.

The project is sponsored by former German President Joachim Gauck and Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller. According to the writer, the museum will help "heal a gap in memory" left by the forced departure of hundreds of thousands of people from their homeland. Many exiles never returned to Germany after the war.

Anhalt Station, once one of the largest railway stations in Germany, was demolished during the war, and to this day, only the remains of the entrance façade have survived. The Danish architects plan to preserve what is left intact and then place the new building with a curved façade behind it. The construction costs are expected to be around 27 million euros (700 million crowns).