This research explores how spatial design can enhance the way a literary experience, specifically in exhibitions. Focusing on three case studies, the Hans Christian Andersen House (DK), the Karen Blixen Museum (DK), and La Muette, Espaces Littéraires (CH), I investigated how scenography, spatial storytelling, and curatorial strategies shape the visitor's perspective of both author and oeuvre.
While literary exhibitions traditionally struggle between focusing on biography or manuscript, this study shows how spatial design can mediate that balance and transform literary works into immersive, bodily experiences. Through tools like light, material layering, interactive paths, and architectural atmosphere, design becomes a form of narrative device, creating paths that guide, interpret, and even re-writes the experience of literature for the visitor, beyond classical static displays.
Ultimately, the study argues that literary exhibitions should be designed as stories themselves, spatially unfolding narratives that invite visitors not just to read, but to feel and explore the imaginative depth of literature.
