New museum captures magic of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales

Denmark's most famous citizen, Hans Christian Andersen, known and loved for his fairy tales, is the focus of a brand-new museum. The museum, in the Danish town of Odense, where Andersen was born, is itself something of a fairy tale and will likely overshadow many others in terms of its modernity, architecture and experience. The new H. C. Andersen's Hus cost some 59 million dollars and had a soft open this week. Much work is still needed, particularly in the garden, but perhaps this is precisely in the spirit of Andersen: Visitors have to use their imagination to see the finished museum - and ...