Labyrinthia

Labyrinthia brings the history of Drenthe to life. Visitors can wander through the Labyrinth of fifteen galleries, each of which presents them with a new world. YIPP developed various special experiences that focus on collaboration and the combination of the physical and digital worlds. Take a canoe ride together. As you paddle, you’ll sail through a prehistoric landscape. By aiming it at the projections, the paddle also serves as a fishing rod and spear. Through this immersive and interactive story, you’ll experience first hand how important the invention of the canoe really was, and what it meant to people back then. As you exit the canoe and walk further into the gallery, you’ll see one of the museum’s masterpieces, the oldest canoe ever found: the canoe of Pesse, dating back 12.000 years.

Usertest Canoe ride

In a gallery filled with paintings, you can paint your own version of the Drents landscape using Artificial Intelligence. Combine your creativity with an AI and see an unexpected edit that hangs between the other paintings.

Usertest Mammothunt

Take the entire family mammoth hunting. This experience takes you along on the clever hunting techniques used by Neanderthals: duck on time, make noise, block the river, and use your spear to throw the mammoth off balance.

Animation Mammothhunt

YIPP also developed the exhibition’s AV productions together with AV partner WIRTZ Film. This collaboration led to a beautiful outcome: poetic animations about death and remembrance, a projection mapping of a fibula that turns into a butterfly, an impactful audio production of the Yde girl who tells her own story, mesmerising music throughout the exhibition and much more. We even recreated Witte Maegje, the cheerful and disarming little house spirit who leads families and children through the museum, often asking questions that turn out to be more profound than they may first appear.

Labyrinthia allows visitors to connect with the objects, history and each other through various interactive experiences. Created in close collaboration with exhibition designer Northernlight and builder Bruns.


Would you like more information about this project or have something similar in mind? Please contact Wouter van der Zouwe (wouter.vanderzouwe@yipp.nl)