Follow paper from pulp to story

Children draw and fold paper every day, but rarely ask what happened before a clean white sheet appeared. Wereldmuseum Rotterdam’s Verhaal van Papier turns that hidden journey into three hands-on stations. Families first encounter pulp, then make or handle a sheet, and finally transform the material into a product they can understand as their own. Artist Akash Kumar designed the roughly two-hour route for ages four and above. Sessions run between 18 July and 30 August, except 22–23 August. The activity itself is free, museum admission is separate and capacity is limited to thirty participants. Reserve a time first, then place the gallery visit around it so collection objects and the paper in a child’s hands begin to connect.

• The route moves through pulp, sheet and paper product in three stations.
• The activity is for ages four and above and lasts about two hours.
• The workshop is free, but museum admission is not included.
• Capacity is thirty per session, so popular holiday slots should be reserved.

Hokimi field note: Before the workshop, ask the child to find one collection object linked to paper but made from something else.