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 mission within the harbour-side neighbourhood Katendrecht, previously house to Rotterdam’s red-light district and Europe’s largest China city. Its opening comes at a time of hardening rhetoric in opposition to immigration in Europe.
“It’s not for us to inform folks how they need to really feel about migration,” the museum’s Esmee Köhler advised Constructive Information throughout a preview go to final yr. “We simply need 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 group 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’ll 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,” stated the museum’s director, Anna Kremers.
Picture: Fenix/Mounir Raji
