A Dutch museum is turning one of the country's favorite breakfast staples into a work of art, with a floor covered in hundreds of kilograms of peanut butter as a tribute to pioneering conceptual artist Wim T. Schippers.

The unusual installation, known as Pindakaasvloer (Peanut Butter Floor), uses around 360 kilograms of smooth peanut butter – roughly enough to make 15,000 sandwiches – and will go on display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam from Friday, July 10.

The artwork was first created by Schippers in 1969 and became one of his most famous pieces, challenging traditional ideas about what qualifies as art. By using a familiar household product as the medium, Schippers encouraged audiences to question whether something as ordinary as a kitchen ingredient could become a serious artistic statement.

"It's an absurd artwork. It also questions what art is," said Sandra Kisters, acting director of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. "It's funny, and peanut butter is, I don't know, in the Netherlands every child eats peanut butter, so it's also something people can relate to."

The museum has recreated the piece by spreading 40 buckets of peanut butter across a 25-square-meter hexagonal surface. Two employees spent several days using drywall trowels to carefully apply the sticky layer, which is around two centimetres thick.

"It's actually quite messy work because everything gets covered in peanut butter," said Robert Knoop, one of the museum staff members involved in creating the installation. "I'm used to licking peanut butter off my fingers by now."

Schippers, who died last month at the age of 83, was known for his playful and often absurd approach to art. His work frequently blurred the line between everyday life and artistic expression. He was also recognized by Dutch audiences for voicing Ernie and Kermit the Frog in the Netherlands' version of Sesame Street.

The Peanut Butter Floor forms part of Schippers' wider Floor Covering Series, which included other unconventional installations featuring materials such as salt and glass shards.

The artwork has attracted both fascination and interaction during previous exhibitions. When it was displayed in 1997, visitors added slices of bread and bags of hagelslag – the chocolate sprinkles commonly eaten on bread in the Netherlands – in an act described as a playful "vandalism" of the piece. During another showing in 2011, some visitors stepped directly onto the peanut butter surface.

For the latest exhibition, warning signs have been placed around the installation to prevent visitors from treating it as a giant snack.

The museum says the work remains an important example of Schippers' legacy, continuing to ask a simple but enduring question: Where is the boundary between ordinary objects and art?