A brand new artwork museum dedicated to migration opened this week in Rotterdam, close to the dock the place Albert Einstein fled Europe to start out a brand new life within the US.
The Fenix museum is the centrepiece of a regeneration challenge within the harbour-side neighbourhood Katendrecht, previously dwelling to Rotterdam’s red-light district and Europe’s largest China city. Its opening comes at a time of hardening rhetoric towards immigration in Europe.
“It’s not for us to inform folks how they need to really feel about migration,” the museum’s Esmee Köhler informed Constructive Information throughout a preview go to final 12 months. “We simply wish to enrich the view that individuals have about migration.”
Fenix – designed by Chinese language architect Ma Yansong – opened with three exhibitions, together with Suitcase Labyrinth, a set of two,000 suitcases that inform private tales of individuals from around the globe.
In addition to exhibitions, the museum has an enormous indoor metropolis sq., or ‘Plein’, on the bottom ground. It should function an area for connection and can play host to cultural occasions curated by Rotterdam’s myriad communities all year long. “We wish everybody to really feel welcome,” mentioned the museum’s director, Anna Kremers.
Picture: Fenix/Mounir Raji
