From a Bronze Boar to a Digital Dream

How saganauts began…

For me, the starting point was The Metal Pig — H.C. Andersen’s story about a little boy and a bronze boar in Florence. My parents read it aloud to me when I was a child, shortly before we travelled to Italy. Later, standing in front of Fontana del Porcellino at the Mercato Nuovo, the sculpture felt strangely familiar. It was no longer just a bronze figure, but the same animal I had met in the story — shaped by memory, imagination and place.

That experience stayed with me. It suggested that fiction and physical objects can reinforce one another, and that artworks sometimes gain meaning when approached through narrative. Years later, while working as a museum educator and communications officer at Kunsthal Aarhus, the same question reappeared: how might art become more accessible to children? And how could we support a shift from passive looking to active interpretation?

My professional path eventually moved toward digital communication, SEO and content design — areas that at first glance seemed distant from museum-based storytelling. Yet the underlying concerns remained the same: understanding audiences, shaping coherent narratives and developing ways of presenting information so it feels engaging and alive.

That’s where the seed for Saganauts was planted.

A project that weaves together the strands of my work so far — from museology and education to digital communication and strategy — with the aim of creating bridges between narrative, culture and technology. At its core lies a simple ambition: to offer children an experience of wonder similar to the one I felt years ago in front of the bronze boar in Florence — a sense that art can speak directly to you, and that every story contains an entry point waiting to be discovered.