Museum as Sundial

Exhibition 'Museum as Sundial' in Van Abbemuseum

What if a museum could function like a sundial? Not simply marking time, but helping us understand our place in the world. Conceived by director Defne Ayas as an exercise in reorientation, Museum as Sundial brings together contemporary art, design, archaeology, play and collective ways of learning and living.

This autumn, the Van Abbemuseum presents Museum as Sundial. Opening during Dutch Design Week, the project takes the sundial as both an ancient technology and a contemporary design proposition: a way of connecting our bodies, our buildings and our communities to the movement of the sun, the ground beneath our feet and the world beyond the museum walls.

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