Exhibition: Sunshine Freedom and a Little Flower

With the exhibition “Sunshine Freedom and a little Flower” the Chinese public was the first to be presented to the concept and design of the new Hans Christian Andersen House scheduled to open in Odense in 2021. Danish Cultural Center in Beijing invited local audiences to have a first-hand experience of how the new museum’s architecture and scenography challenges the conventional perceptions of how a museum might be conceived.

The exhibition was inaugurated in November 2020 by Denmark’s ambassador to China, Thomas Østrup Møller, at a kick-off event which was part of the marking of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomacy relations between Denmark and The People’s Republic of China. The opening was covered by 19 Chinese media and piqued a huge interest offline and online. The exhibition title is taken from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Butterfly.”