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Digital Storytelling Recreates Netherlands Canon
The Canon of the Netherlands exhibit at Netherlands Open Air Museum is the most interactive history book imaginable — that is, if you have a forgiving definition of what qualifies as a history book.
“Page” after “page” of Dutch history is turned there with the power of interactive video walls and journalistic design sense. A task normally relegated to textbook companies and historians was now in the hands of museum curators, content designers, and, of course, the people who bound the proverbial book: Exhibition architects Kossmann.dejong and a multidisciplinary team of film, animation and interactive designers, Rapenburg Plaza of Amsterdam.
“We work in parallel with Rapenburg Plaza in most of our projects and they help bring our ideas to life,” says Robert van der Linde, project leader and spatial designer at Kossmann.dejong.
“They have an expert, specialist team who work to bring all exhibition elements together in a holistic and creative way. At the Canon of the Netherlands, there is something for everyone. It’s designed to be as interactive and proactive as possible for visitors to discover so much about Dutch history and the Netherlands as an ever-changing and evolving country.”
