Hans Christian Andersen Museum

The new museum is located at H.C. Andersen Haven 1, and comprises exhibits and collections from Andersen's works and life. A visit to Hans Christian Andersen’s House is a surprising and fascinating journey into the author’s creative universe – and his world-famous fairy tales. Beauty merges with imagination at the museum, where world-class architecture and spaces bring nature indoors, and provoke us to turn things on their head and speculate about today and tomorrow.

Via sound, light, space and scenery designed in collaboration with 12 international artists, in this innovative exhibition, we experience Andersen and his works speak to us. Our imagination is our only compass. We each create our own adventure!

The birthplace (Danish: H.C. Andersen's Hus) is located in the building which is thought his birthplace (not conclusively confirmed), a small yellow house on the corner of 45 Hans Jensens Stræde and Bangs Boder street in the old town.[1] In 1908, the house was reopened as the H.C. Andersen Museum. It documents his life from his childhood years as the son of a shoemaker to his schooling, career as an author, and later life, with artifacts providing an insight into his acquaintances and adventures.[1] In 2021 a new museum was opened incorporating the birthplace into it.
The birthplace is also known as H.C. Andersen's House, after the plaque at the front door Danish: H.C. Andersen's Hus.

Andersen's childhood home (Danish: H.C. Andersens Barndomshjem) is at 3-5 Munkemøllestræde, not far from the cathedral. He lived in the little half-timbered house from the age of two until he was 14. Opened as a museum in 1930, the house contains an exhibition of the cobbling tools used by his father and other items based on Andersen's own descriptions.[2]

In 2016, it was announced that Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma, and museum design consultancy, Event Communications, had won an international competition to design a new House of Fairytales concept for the Hans Christian Andersen Museum (also called the New Hans Christian Andersen Museum).[3][4] Kuma's designs revolve around "a series of cylindrical volumes with glass and latticed timber facades, and scooped green roofs".[5] Event Communications said that the museum would follow an "immersive theatre" that "taps into a fundamental aspect of fairytales – they are journeys where the line between the everyday and the transformative is blurred".[6] The project is being managed by Museum Odense and opened in the summer of 2021.

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  Birthplace and current museum (as of 2021)
  (45 Hans Jensens Stræde)
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  Childhood Home
  (3-5 Munkemøllestræde)
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  Old museum (before 2019), rear view
  (11 Claus Bergs Gade)

• Museum Odense
• Interview with Kengo Kuma: The New Hans Christian Andersen Museum, House of Fairytales, Museum Odense, Denmark