From a Bronze Boar to a Digital Dream

How saganauts began…

For me, it began with The Metal Pig — H.C. Andersen’s haunting tale of a little boy and a bronze boar in Florence. I was a child when my parents first read it aloud to me, just before we travelled to Italy. Later, standing in front of Fontana del Porcellino, the famous bronze wild boar at the Mercato Nuovo, the story came alive. It wasn’t just a sculpture anymore — it was the pig from Andersen’s story, shimmering with imagination and memory.

That moment stayed with me. The sense that fiction and reality could merge — that art could whisper its own stories if you only knew how to listen — became something of a quiet obsession. Years later, when I began working as a museum educator and communications officer at Kunsthal Aarhus, that same idea returned: how could we make art come alive for children? How could we turn passive viewing into personal discovery?

Over time, my professional path shifted toward digital communication, SEO, and content design — fields that, on the surface, seemed far removed from museum storytelling. But underneath, the connection was still there: understanding audiences, creating narrative structures, and finding ways to make information feel alive.

That’s where the seed for Saganauts was planted.

A project that brings together everything I’ve learned — from museology to digital strategy — to build bridges between stories, culture, and technology. A way for children to experience the same sense of wonder I felt standing before that bronze boar in Florence: the feeling that art knows your name, and that every story has a door you can step through.