WONDERLAND

Kunsthal Rotterdam

Wonderland fairytales

A selection of the most beautiful and unique children’s books from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek’s (Royal Library) collection of 125,000 books for children and juveniles.

Location
Rotterdam (NL)
Client
Koninklijke Bibliotheek Den Haag
Year
2002

Three-part collage

Wonderland factory
A magical world of children’s books was created, for both children and adults.
outer skin with book spines
Playing with scale was a design principle here. The “outer skin” of the exhibition consisted of 5.5 metre high book spines, in which 63 glass showcases gave a chronological overview of Dutch books for children.
Digital browser book
A large number of showcases included a digital browser book.
Pavilions
Eleven pavilions lay like a fallen box of bricks in the space. In each pavilion, a theme was elaborated in a different way using different media
Travel pavilion
The pavilion with travel stories was designed as fantasy vehicle to carry you on a journey on which you experience all kinds of travel adventures.

A magical world of children’s books was created, for both children and adults.

Discovering wonderland
A lot to see and do
Overview of pavilions
A reality ..
.. made from a sketch.
Overview

Do you have a story to tell?

Then let’s get started!

Marieke

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