Danish Maritime Museum, Helsingor, Denmark

Architect	BIG
Date Built	Completed 2010
Location	Helsingor harbour
Description
Between Kronenborg Catle and the Culture Yard in Helsingor is an old dry dock that is soon to open as the Danish Maritime Museum. This once abandoned dock was excavated, and in the space around it an underground museum was built which also served the function of supporting the old dock walls that were in danger of collapsing. (The image above derives from Wikipedia. The licensing information is shown at the bottom of this page.) An article on the "designbuild-network.com" website explains that, "....The new museum will be placed around the dry dock, not in it, preserving the dock as an entirely empty space. Visitors will arrive through a set of descending ramps and a series of bridges will span the dry dock providing them with short cuts to other parts of the museum. The museum includes three bridges: the Kronborg Bridge, Zig-Zag Bridge and the Harbor Bridge. All three will provide access into the museum and exhibition areas. An auditorium also serves as a bridge providing direct access from Kronborg Castle to the harbour. The building will provide the Maritime Museum with a continuous 7,600m² exhibition gallery that will feel like the deck of a ship and will house the museum's large collection of paintings, model ships, maritime equipment and sailors' memorabilia. According to the Maritime Museum's website the new building is scheduled to open in October of 2013