Kengo Kuma's new work, Hans Christian Andersen Museum opens this summer

Explore the relationship between the self and the outside world

The new Andersen Museum in Denmark, designed by the famous Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, is scheduled to open this summer. Covering an area of 5,600 square meters, the venue consists of a series of cylindrical structures, glass curtain walls and a slightly recessed roof, making you feel like you are in the middle of a forest. Kengo Kuma is committed to visualizing Andersen's literary universe, creating a lively and childlike art space through architecture, sound, lighting, and a multitude of images.

The Andersen Museum is not only a retrospective of Andersen's fairy tales, but also a comprehensive display of Andersen's over-romantic childhood, fruitless emotional experiences, and how he awakened, ran away and found his belonging in life. In addition, this museum does not use the objects on display as the protagonist, but moves Andersen's literary world into the space, integrating the three elements of nature, architecture and exhibition, as if popping out of Andersen's whimsy fairy tale house.