Help us build the gigantic installation - the Pillars of Hope!

Help Museon-Omniversum fill two impressive, 8-meter-high installations with a fantastic collection as a tribute to our beautiful planet.

What are the Pillars of Hope?
The Pillars of Hope will be a tribute to biodiversity and a celebration of human ingenuity. They make visitors realize that the balance between humans and nature must be restored and that human creative ability is the key to success. It inspires action. That is what we want to achieve.

This autumn when you enter the museum, we want you to be unable to avoid them: Two imposing 8-meter-high pillars. One pillar represents the Biosphere; you can see the splendour of all life on Earth. A sumptuous collection of colours and organisms in nature! The other pillar represents the "Technosphere": all the materials us humans have made. Alongside the heavy materials, you will see hopeful materials that symbolise resourceful humans: from telescopes to school desks, from reed boats to hydrogen-making machines. The Pillars will be made from reusable materials and our own collection pieces.

Will you help us build?
To be able to build the Pillars of Hope, we have started this crowdfunding campaign and hope to raise €25.000,-. We need your help to do this. With your donation, we can prepare many collection pieces and acquire extra special pieces to make the story as complete as possible.

Thanks to your contribution tiger Hermes from Diergaarde Blijdorp and the world's largest flower Rafflesia will soon shine in the biosphere pillar. For the technosphere pillar we can admire a traditional reed boat from Lake Titicaca and the hopeful artwork Flip-Flop Fish from Kenya's Ocean Sole.



Image: Artist impression

"All man-made items on Earth weigh more than all living organisms combined. The future of humans, animals, and nature on our planet is at stake, but there is hope!"

About Museon-Omniversum
This year, we are celebrating 160 years together (Museon 120 years and Omniversum 40 years). We would like to celebrate this with you. It is the mission of Museon-Omniversum to explore together how we can better care for our planet full of incredible wonders. We take everyone on a journey of discovery and stimulate the imagination of how things can be better and different. Because no matter how small, everyone can make a difference.

Will you join us?
With your donation, you contribute to the realization of the pillars and make a difference with us! This way, we bring balance back to Earth.

Will you help make a difference?

Build with us on the Pillars of Hope!