Well-known Australian architect Feiko Bouman (born in Groningen) sketches a new museum for Abel Tasman in Lutjegast. ‘I want to take it to the next level’

Abel Tasman, explorer. No: ‘master pioneer of the world’s seas’. Discoverer of New Zealand and that island below Australia: Tasmania. Born in 1603 in Lutjegast. It is difficult for Feiko Bouman to believe that the museum that tells Tasman’s story here in the province of Groningen is ‘just’ a wing of a village hall in Tasman’s birthplace. A wing in Village House Het Kompas. “I want to take the Museum to a higher level.”