During World War II, to prevent an Allied invasion of the European continent from Great Britain, the German armed forces built a series of fortifications along the coastline, known as the Atlantic Wall. The Museum Center Blåvand is integrated in one of these old military fortifications located on the Danish western coast, in the southern region of the country. With an area of 2,500 square meters, the museum complex comprises four institutions that function independently: a bunker museum, an amber museum, a histolarium and a special exhibitions gallery.

Four precise cuts in the landscape, which link up with the network of paths on the site, generate the access to the museum through a central courtyard between the volumes. The four spaces are conceived as semiburied boxes built with retaining concrete walls on three of the sides and on the fourth with slightly sloping glass walls to let light come into the interior spaces. In the highest part of the existing bunker – connected to the museum via an underground tunnel –, a glass recreation of the old military cannon becomes a lookout for visitors, a vantage point offering broad views over the North Sea.