Kingdom of Wandaland

The archipelago, thought to be 1000 nautical miles off the coast of Russia, north of Japan, is believed to have since sunk. We mysteriously have no written information about this kingdom or it’s people. However, we have found a passage in the diary of Nikolai Zelden, dated 1962, in which he claims to have bought a ticket to this country. His children relay that he went missing on the day he was supposed to board the plane to Wandaland. They gave up trying to look for information on Wandaland believing their young ears had been kindly protected from their mother’s anguish at their father’s suicide.

The Museum of Lost Worlds has retrieved only a handful of items from a Wandaland aeroplane found on the island of Rebun-to north of Hokkaido, Japan. From these artefacts the museum has deduced a few vague ideas about the kingdom, while scientists and groups around the world stand divided on their own theories of Wandaland.

A group at the University of Gdansk believe that the Kingdom of Wandaland is a state of mind reachable through intensive sleep paralyses, they believe that Wandaland is a condition of the brain. They reason that it’s name was derived from Wanda Martini, an unusual woman who suffered from daily bouts of severe sleep paralyses. In one of her extreme states they would say she had reached ‘Wandaland’.

Ancient scriptures of Zoroastrianism dated 1180BC mention Wandaland as a possible 17th to their 16 perfect lands created by Ahura Mazda. We are inclined to interpret it’s mention here to be used more as a metaphor for the after world.
 
Sceptics from an internet anti conspiracy theory club, believe that much like half the crop circles in the world, Wandaland is a mere hoax.
A small cult in northern Estonia believes that Wandaland is found through certain yogic exercises.  We are unable to research their theory as the cult members are sworn to secrecy.
A group of helionauts in the UK believe wandaland to be a verb, to land off the mark in a wandering fashion.

The museum of Lost Worlds found a series of drawings by patient, Monika Zemaitis, from a psychiatric institution, Siauliai, Lithuania. The museum believes the images to be true landscape depictions of the islands. The drawings reveal an extremely icy world, built upon warming hot air cylinders. The flora and fauna appear to have little relation to other known plants in the region and it is thought possible that the oxygen produced by the tanks contains a foreign ingredient not part of our known periodic table.
The patient recently passed away. Her nurses say her delusion caused her to constantly scream to be taken back to Wandaland.

The drawings have already been exhibited in an outsider art exhibition in Paris. Art critics believed her drawings depicted the true essence of the Ukiyo-e or floating world movement in 17th century Japananese painting.

The Museum of Lost Worlds

A former secret service agent founded The Museum of Lost Worlds in 2006. While searching for a nameless assassinator, the agent came across documents confirming the existence of a number of forgotten worlds. His position was soon dismissed and he continues to research these lands with a growing team of dedicated geographers and archaeologists in a secret hideout north of Melbourne. 

Due to the potential mass hysteria caused by the uncovering of these worlds and their controversial nature - the museum, rather than finding a permanent space, exhibits in one off shows (also known as “uncoverings”) around the world.