The Greatest Fairy Tale: Hans Christian Andersen

The Greatest Fairy Tale: The Amazing Life and Story of Hans Christian Andersen
The Greatest Fairy Tale: The Amazing Life and Story of Hans Christian Andersen

Exhibit Overview

The Greatest Fairy Tale: The Amazing Life and Story of Hans Christian Andersen transported visitors into a fairy tale world to experience the work, life, and times of one of the greatest story tellers the world has known.  The exhibition blended highly interactive and audio-visual exhibits with original objects to reveal how the true events of Hans Christian Andersen’s life shaped and inspired his famous fairy tales.

The exhibition was designed in response to the HCA 2005 foundation’s worldwide celebrations of 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen’s birth.  The H.C. Andersen 2005 foundation and the Danish Ministry of Culture officially granted the right to produce the official exhibition for the celebrations to the United Exhibits Group seeing the exhibition as “one of the most significant dimensions of the celebration of Hans Christian Andersen” in 2005.