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Denmark's Hans Christian Andersen museum gets fairytale makeover

Camille Bas-Wohlert (AFP)
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Odense, Denmark
Wed, December 29, 2021

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Denmark's Hans Christian Andersen museum gets fairytale makeover Picture taken on June 28, 2021 shows one of the exhibits as preparations are under way for the opening of a new museum devoted to Danish author Hans Christian Andersen in his home town of Odense, Denmark. (AFP/Claus Fisker/Ritzau Scanpix)

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enmark is honouring its most famous writer, Hans Christian Andersen, with a revamped museum that aims to immerse visitors in the fantasy worlds he created.

Visitors have expressed delight with the new museum, which reopened in the summer and saw renovation work completed this month before it was shut as part of Denmark's efforts to fight a Covid resurgence.

From The Little Mermaid to The Snow Queen, Andersen's works -- which the author called his "children" -- have inspired countless Disney films, ballets, songs and books.

The old Hans Christian Andersen museum in the writer's hometown of Odense in central Denmark was a "traditional biographical museum" filled with "a lot of artefacts and text", said Lone Weidemann, marketing coordinator for Odense museums.

But visitors "were looking for his fairytales, because that's what they know".

In a magical transformation that any fairy godmother would be proud of, city authorities have overseen a seven-year renovation of the museum into a sprawling complex above and below the cobbled streets of Odense's old town. 

After entering the redesigned museum, visitors move through the modest cottage where Andersen spent his childhood in the early 1800s, before being swept into a vast underground space devoted to his stories -- filled with animations, interactive exhibits and music.

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