Denmark's Queen Margrethe opens new refugee museum
STORY: The 5,000 square metre museum building in the woods outside Oksboel incorporates buildings that were used to house some 35,000 refugees from Germany in the years following World War Two and tells the story about refugees coming to Denmark since then.
FLUGT aims to give insight into what it means to be a refugee and what it is like to be the recipient country.
One of the stories is told by now 19-year-old Syrian refugee Rahima Abdullah who came to the country around 6 years ago.
"Today, refugees are being reduced to numbers. One forgets that behind the concept of refugees there are people who have their own stories to tell, quite ordinary people who have become refugees because of something they have not chosen themselves," she said, sitting in a replica of a room she hid in while fleeing.
According to figures from the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) released last month, more than 100 million people have been driven from their homes around the world.
