A whole new version of the museum honoring Hans Christian Andersen has opened in his hometown of Odense, Denmark; in its new version the museum has changed from a museum about Andersen to a museum about his works.
Lone Weideman, marketing coordinator for Odense’s museums, says that the old exhibit was a “traditional biographical museum” filled with “a lot of artefacts and text, but visitors were looking for his fairytales, because that’s what they know.”
The old museum was located in the modest cottage where Andersen spent his childhood. The new museum begins there, but stretches around and below the area to create a space filled with animation, interactive exhibits and music. One visitor described it as a “complete other world.”
Photo above shows construction at the museum in April 2020
