The Dick Bruna Huis at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht is dedicated to the work of the Utrecht-born illustrator, Dick Bruna who created such iconic characters as the white bunny, Miffy (or Nijntje as she is called here in the Netherlands) and her friends, Boris and Barbara Bear and Poppy Pig. The Dick Bruna Huis is, however, not merely a Miffy Museum, because Bruna has such an impressive portfolio under his belt as cover designs for Dutch and international best-selling crime novels - e.g. by Georges Simenon (Maigret) and Leslie Charteris (the Saint) -, poster commissions for Amnesty International, the Red Cross and other organizations, postage stamps, postcards and prints. The Bruna collection consists of more than 1200 works, including original sketches and drawings. Through a documentary, you can learn about how Bruna works and why he feels that simplicity shall be the key to his compositions. It's worth visiting the musueum to learn more about the artist and his legacy that goes well beyond the Miffy world.
"Simplicity leaves lots of room for the imagination, and that's what people find appealing in my work." /Dick Bruna/
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