History all around
Mark creates historical exhibitions and activities all around the municipality to be close to the actual historical sites - and close to you, our guests.
The Mobile Museum
The Mobile Museum conveys history where it happened and breaks with the conventional museum framework. The static and rigid exhibitions are replaced by playing with colors, images and expressions. The many surfaces of The Mobile Museum provide the opportunity to show history with both text and images, and invite the museum visitor, citizen, tourist or dog walker inside for a closer inspection of the walls, ceiling, floor or door. Even when the door of The Mobile Museum is closed, the exterior surfaces communicate.
When the door is open, you can meet one of the museum’s docents who are eager to elaborate on the story for you.
The Mobile Museum’s ability to change appearance makes it a great tool for communicating the museum’s responsibilities, both so that it can travel geographically to a larger area and as a communicator of the agricultural, industrial and tourism history of Billund Municipality.
Historical playgrounds with stories
Billund Municipality’s Museums create playgrounds throughout the municipality in co-creation with citizens. Billund Municipality’s playground strategy states that each playground should be unique to each town, and this is where history comes in. The museum has researched the rich histories of all local towns. In each study, we have extracted commonalities across time, place and people. Commonalities that can be described as values. These values have been decisive for the contractors who, together with us, Billund Municipality and the citizens in the local communities, have designed the playgrounds. Sometimes elements from history have also been interpreted 1:1 and attempted to be recreated in the playground equipment and design. The values point to specific identities for the towns and are crucial in our co-creation process with citizens. It’s a unique way of using history that can’t be found anywhere else in the country. For each process at each playground, citizens have been involved in different co-creation processes. This includes daycare providers and kindergartens, adults and children, schoolchildren of different ages, special groups such as young people and neighbors of the playgrounds, and finally adults in the local area.
The co-creation with citizens, based on a common goal and a shared passion for the unique characteristics of towns, provides quality assurance in the process of developing playgrounds, as well as a high degree of positive communication and dialog between citizens and the municipality. The place-based story is our starting point.
Click here, to listen to Anna Louise Siggaard explaining how the river and the meadow’s significance for the area is illustrated in the playground in Sydbyen in Grindsted. (The youtube-video is in Danish)
