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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Oh, I'm a little bit nervous, but in an excited way to see it. |
0:09.8 | So I think it's best to just walk that way, get down. |
0:12.7 | Just go in. |
0:13.7 | Yeah. |
0:14.7 | Okay. |
0:15.7 | Let's just put on a bit of light. |
0:33.0 | It's never really light down here, because as you can see, there is no way of the light |
0:37.4 | actually entering the space. |
0:40.6 | It wasn't built for us to be inside it, so it's something different. |
0:45.6 | So we're completely enclosed underground. |
0:50.0 | How would you describe this smell? |
0:52.0 | I'm Sarah Wyman and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible |
0:57.7 | and wondrous places. |
0:59.3 | Today, I'm standing inside this massive man-made cave under the city of Copenhagen. |
1:06.5 | It's a sister built in the 1850s to supply the entire growing city of Copenhagen with |
1:13.7 | fresh water. |
1:15.8 | But then, in the 1930s, the sister was emptied and closed up, and pretty much everyone forgot |
1:22.4 | about it. |
1:23.4 | Until decades later, when a group of artists and curators rediscovered this place and |
1:29.1 | transformed it into a kind of canvas. |
1:33.7 | Now every year, a new artist is invited to exhibit their work in this space, and the |
1:38.6 | space itself becomes part of the artwork. |
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