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The Dutch queen opened a new migration museum in Rotterdam
Rotterdam – The Dutch port city of Rotterdam has a new attraction for locals and tourists: an art museum focused on migration. The magnificent building with a colossal double spiral staircase made of shiny steel was inaugurated on Thursday by Dutch Queen Máxima, reports DPA.
According to its representatives, Fenix is the first museum ever to present the theme of migration through modern artworks. It aims to tell migration as a journey, said its director Anne Kremers. "Migration is universal, timeless, and above all, deeply human," she added.
The 53-year-old Queen Máxima, who was born in Argentina, is also a migrant. She emigrated to the Netherlands more than 20 years ago and married then Crown Prince Willem-Alexander in 2002.
The enormous warehouse, over 100 years old, was transformed into a museum by Chinese architect Ma Yansong. Its centerpiece is a spiral staircase resembling a slide in a water park. The whirlwind of steel and wood leads from the ground floor high above the roof and reflects the city, water, and people in its shiny steel, describes DPA.
The 16,000 m² museum tells the story of migration through artworks, photographs, and personal belongings. There is, for example, a labyrinth of about 2000 suitcases belonging to emigrants or an old, brightly painted city bus from New York.
Fenix is located in the center of the city's historic port area. Millions of people set off from here to the United States and Canada from the late 19th to the early 20th century. One of them was Albert Einstein, DPA reminds us.
Rotterdam was destroyed by German air raids 85 years ago. However, the city was rebuilt after the war and today is one of the tourist centers of the Netherlands.
> www.fenix.nl/en
According to its representatives, Fenix is the first museum ever to present the theme of migration through modern artworks. It aims to tell migration as a journey, said its director Anne Kremers. "Migration is universal, timeless, and above all, deeply human," she added.
The 53-year-old Queen Máxima, who was born in Argentina, is also a migrant. She emigrated to the Netherlands more than 20 years ago and married then Crown Prince Willem-Alexander in 2002.
The enormous warehouse, over 100 years old, was transformed into a museum by Chinese architect Ma Yansong. Its centerpiece is a spiral staircase resembling a slide in a water park. The whirlwind of steel and wood leads from the ground floor high above the roof and reflects the city, water, and people in its shiny steel, describes DPA.
The 16,000 m² museum tells the story of migration through artworks, photographs, and personal belongings. There is, for example, a labyrinth of about 2000 suitcases belonging to emigrants or an old, brightly painted city bus from New York.
Fenix is located in the center of the city's historic port area. Millions of people set off from here to the United States and Canada from the late 19th to the early 20th century. One of them was Albert Einstein, DPA reminds us.
Rotterdam was destroyed by German air raids 85 years ago. However, the city was rebuilt after the war and today is one of the tourist centers of the Netherlands.
> www.fenix.nl/en
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