Hammocks, poisoned arrows, bat necklaces and large, colourful photos give the visitor the experience of being there in the magical world of the rain forest. The exhibition tells the story of the Indian peoples and their traditional way of life, which is becoming more and more difficult to sustain in the areas around the Orinoco River. The rainforest forms part of a cycle of growth and decay, and the 
course of life for animals and human beings changes with the changes of the seasons. In the rainy season the rivers overflow their banks so that the rain forest paths become muddy, dangerous, inaccessible –and full of magic and enchantment!
In the exhibition we can visit various Indian peoples like the Hiwi, Hoti and Panar, who have all survived for many generations by adapting to the conditions of nature. Now they are being forced away from their territories as the rain forest disappears.
As a visitor you move along the river from settlement to settlement through the forest and along the rivers. You can go exploring surrounded by head-high, intense rain forest photos and more than 450 objects that have belonged to the Indians: the shaman’s tools, necklaces of animal teeth, blowpipes, hammocks and much more.
All exhibits come from the Cisneros Foundation, a private Venezuelan organization which has collected objects and documented the lives of various ethnic groups along the Orinoco River for 
half a century. Behind the foundation are Patricia and Gustavo Cisneros, whose aim has been to spread knowledge of the Orinoco peoples and their way of life, among other ways by lending their collection to exhibition venues in Europe.
The original exhibition was shown at the Swedish Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg from 2005 to 2008, where no fewer than 400,000 people saw it. The exhibition was mounted in collaboration with the researcher, anthropologist and archaeologist Lelia Delgado and the Århus-based firm of architects schmidt hammer lassen.