NEW HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN MUSEUM IN HOMETOWN
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The new H.C. Andersen’s House in Odense is setting new life to the world’s most translated children’s author.
Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II came and made a soft-opening and in a rare speech she said, that “he was a marvelous man and he would be very proud”.
The New Hans Christian Andersen’s house has costed app. €50 mio (400 Dkk).
The opening is called a soft opening, because it is built by the world famous architect Kengo Kuma, who also built the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. Due to covid 19 the museum is not complete and Kengo Kuma will come to Odense in October, where the complete museum will be ready.
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NEW HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN MUSEUM IN HOMETOWN
The new H.C. Andersen’s House in Odense is setting new life to the world’s most translated children’s author.
He was born in 1805 and was first published with a collection of poets, when he was 26. 4 years later he published his first stories, among them “The Princess on the Pea”.
Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II came and made a soft-opening and in a rare speech she said, that “he was a marvelous man and he would be very proud”.
The Queen has made artistic works based on her stories. The Royal family actually supported the young Hans Christian Andersen in his education.
Creative Director Henrik Lübker, who have worked with japanese architect Kengo Kuma and many other international specialists, hopes The Queen will see that essences of his stories are told again in the new Hans Christian Andersen House.
The Little Mermaid’s room has pillows looking like the rock The Little Mermaid sits on, where you can lie down and look up at a window at the bottom of a lake. like The Little Mermaid did.
Small amazing interactive cartoon movies are made, where you see scenes from for instance The Little match-seller. In your fascination, you end up killing her, as she died in the story.
Many of Hans Christian Andersen main characters end up dying, to come, who they really are.
In real life did Hans Christian Andersen also become famous and seen as the person he really is, now he is dead.
He was never married and in the exhibition are his love letters to 4 men and 4 women for the first time exhibited.
Creative Director Henrik Lübker explains that Hans Christian Andersen did not like to be contained, but should be seen as “fluent”.
Visitors like to get a sound head-set on. As you walk around you hear sounds from actors, nature, music and historic explanations as you stand in front of a place. Sometimes you even get put on clothes from the characters of Hans Christian Andersen.
Rooms with his first editions worth millions and other of his original things are also exhibited.
Hans Christian Andersen actually vent on a girls school, when he was 6 years old. At home he was exposed to comedies by Holberg and other authors of the beginning of the so-called Golden Age of Danish art and culture, that all formed him to the person that is presented.
The New Hans Christian Andersen’s house has costed app. €50 mio (400 Dkk).
The opening is called a soft opening, because it is built by the world famous architect Kengo Kuma, who also built the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. Due to covid 19 the museum is not complete and Kengo Kuma will come to Odense in October, where the complete museum will be ready.
SHOTLIST
- HC Andersen statue
- HC Andersen put together in movement via setting old pictures
- Various exhibition with “The Princess on the Pea”
- HC Andersen statue pan to Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark Margrethe II soft- opening visit
- Soundbite Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark Margrethe II
“Han var en forunderlig mand, ham H.C Andersen og jeg tror fuldkommen som der blev sagt lige før at han nok ville have været ikke så lidt stolt”
(Translation English:
“He was a marvelous man, him H.C Andersen and I think perfectly as was said just before that he probably would have been not so little proud”) - The Queen cuts the ribbon
- The Queen walks Henrik Lübker, Creative Director (left) inside the Hans Christian Andersen museum.
- SOUNDBITE Henrik Lübker, Creative Director:
“I hope she is going to like it. I hope she is going to be really intrigued by the way we have staged the fairy tales and enjoy that this is not just a lot of text on a wall, but this is like walking into a theater show where you are the main character” - Various places museum with Henrik and the Queen
- SOUNDBITE Henrik Lübker, Creative Director
“This is The Mermaid area and you can come in and you can lie down on the rocks and you can look up into the sky and you can hear the other mermaids talking about how beautiful it is up there, and you can hear some beautiful singing. And then the sky is kind of your canvas for your longing as you look up into the sky. What are you longing for, just as the little mermaid longing for a life up there” - People lying in the mermaid exhibition
- SOUNDBITE Henrik Lübker, Creative Director:
“You narrate the story by pressing the button. You advance the story just as the little match girl strikes the matches. So as you press the button, she strikes a match and ultimately it is also you who leads her to her death. Just as when you read the story and turn the page” - Visuals from the girl with the matchsticks
- The tin soldier statue
- SOUNDBITE Henrik Lübker, Creative Director
“Death is a transformation for Andersen. It is when we give ourselves up to death, or as we die we transform to what we really are. So in this one he transforms into a hearth of tin because that is his real character” - Various museum old documents / letters
- SOUNDBITE Henrik Lübker, Creative Director
“Behind me we have the story of Andersens love life or lack thereof. We have eight failed love relationships, four women and four men, and for me it’s all about, not placing him in one box or the other box, it is all about the fluidity that he can’t be contained” - Magic mirror exhibition
- SOUNDBITE Kaj Schlicht:
“It’s a funny installation because only on one side are people wearing costumes and they start moving and dancing a bit and on the other side you don’t see that they have costumes. So lots of people on the other side are having fun” - Other side of the mirror
- SOUNDBITE João Monteiro & Luiza Chaves Varella
“It’s a unique experience for each one to get in contact with H.C. Andersen’s fairy tales. So i think the museum here, it gives you the freedom feel the story in very unique and different way” - SOUNDBITE Peter Rahbæk Juel, Mayor Odense
“It’s a magnificent museum and we knew about Hans Christian Andersen, and that we are carrying part of the world heritage in our hands, so we wanted to do it very well when we built something for him - Various museum:
Among “First editions” of his books.
Statue Hans Christian Andersen
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