Hurray! Today, we are going to the museum!
Mum told us, this was the museum, where every character from the tales, she tells us in the evenings before sleep, would come to life. And we’ll see the Princess and the Pea and the Little Mermaid and the Snow Queen! And even the house where the writer of the stories was born…
The entrance is next to the small lake. It seems as if all the visitors were diving under the water! Mum says we have time to take a look at the birthplace of the writer. We take a big, grassy slope where we find a huge dome-shaped building. Mum says it’s full of beautiful wall paintings. We look back from this rooftop and the park looks like a colossal lake, with people walking on the giant water lily leaves!
We enter the museum by the stairs next to the lake: it’s so funny! There is a huge aquarium next to us, full of fish and strange, colorful underwater plants! Isa says she saw a mermaid but I don’t believe her. Downstairs we take off our coats, but Isa and I go right back to the aquarium while Daddy buys the tickets.
Isa and I got a tablet while Mum and Daddy got an app on their smartphones to navigate in the museum. Grandpa asks for a paper map because he doesn’t like all these new machines...
Isa follows the signs on the floor, which is also fun, but I prefer to navigate with my tablet. There is a lot of interesting stuff! In one room, we can even see the lake above us… We have to find some objects, a tin soldier, a pea, a swan’s feather and a leaf of a nettle. If we find everything, we get a big sheet of paper and learn to make paper cuts just like the ones that H. C. Andersen did during telling stories…
A Chinese boy comes up and says, “I’m Ming and my app shows that we will play together in the theatre”. Oh! It’s amazing my tablet also shows this! Two other boys join us. Ming, Mum and I are the three magic dogs from the Tinderbox…
…And now we climb up to the glass tower. The two spiral stairs are funny: both of them are going to the top, from where we can see the people taking picnics or walking in the park.
I love this reality app so much! You can even use it to talk to the flowers and trees in the park!
…In the evening, Mum reads us a new tale, which she found on her new smartphone app that she got at the museum. This tale was not in our book and not even Dad knew it before. As we are listening together to this new tale, I fall asleep while looking at the shadow of the paper cut-out on the ceiling...