We'd heard about the Dutch and their affinity for Miffy, her friends, and Miffy's creator, Dick Bruna. We'd also heard that a little bird went over to Utrecht and has been waiting in the thralls of a press embargo, desperate to leak this hard-won oh-so-crucial architecturally significant information.

Dear Readers, the wait is over. The report is here.

went to the dick bruna huis yesterday. good bunny-shaped cookies. it's next to the centraal museum so of course there's a clever logo of miffy sitting on the Centraal Museum's C. you know, to show how they're connected and symbiotic and things. dragged through press conference where the most important thing learned seemed to be that dick bruna totally the most looks like a bunny (does it happen with your creations like it happens with couples?) and—and this is kind of cool—the museum/house is designed for parents and kids. so the nostalgic "omg i remember reading miffy!" people can rock it just as hard as the "i can't yet verbalize but i'm already racking up the therapy points" set. with tricks like pictures under the taller display vitrines. and a set of games aimed at two-years that had a few of the more, well, happy Amsterdam tourists very involved. other than that, a flashing wall of lights. and a lot of pictures of a bunny and her friends.

Dude. It's so, just, like...dude. You know?

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