The Smurf Experience

Mission
Concept / Show Design / Storytelling / Exhibition Design / Experience Design / Art Direction
Venue
Palais du Heisel, Brussels, Belgium
Porte de Versailles, Paris, France
Centro, Oberhausen, Germany
Brno, Czech Republic
Bratislava, Czech Republic
Dallas, USA
Date
2018 - 2026
Credits
Concept, Storytelling, Exhibition Design &
Artistic Direction by Marcos Viñals Bassols
Motion graphics by Dirty Monitor
Produced by Cecoforma

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Created for the 60th anniversary of the Smurfs, this 1,500 sqm immersive exhibition places the visitor at Smurf scale — physically shrunk into the village, inhabiting a world where mushroom houses tower overhead and every prop is oversized. The central scenographic decision was to make the scale shift total and immediate: the visitor doesn’t observe the Smurf world, they enter it. The experience has since toured multiple cities across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.

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