Ede Staal: my Groningen – mien Grunnen

Ede Staal: my Groningen - mien Grunnen

The VR experience of Groningen with Ede's music, landscape and language.
1 April to 29 October 2023

Experience Groningen with the music of Ede Staal in your ears, while being in the landscape Ede sings about and flying over it in a bird's-eye view. This is an extraordinary experience.
See the sky above 'Oethoezen'*, the road to 'Klooster' and the turret of 'Spiek'.
With this experience, you experience Ede Staal's songs like never before and feel the impact of the beauty of the landscape. You experience the feeling that speaks from his lyrics: the core of Groningen is touched. The Groningen the Groningers are proud of, and too modest to 'gasp' about it, i.e. brag about it.

Game element for young and old

In the virtual reality environment, you walk through the Groningen landscape to collect the couplets of a song. Look around and find the lyrics. If the song is complete, the reward immediately follows: you listen to the whole song and fly over the landscape Ede Staal sings about. In short, this is no ordinary exhibition but a special Virtual reality experience.

Who was Ede Staal?

For those who want to know who Ede Staal was, there is an interactive photo wall with images from his life.
Also photos and materials from the family archive that have not been shown before. And. his piano is here.

Ede's Taal, the game that teaches you Gronings

And those who want to understand the texts better can do the Groninger language game: it doesn't matter whether you speak Dutch, English or German. The language game is part of the interactive picture wall and is based on the song lyrics of Ede Staal, hence Ede's Taal.

Thanks to Jasper Staal and Fieke Staal for all their help in creating this special exhibition.