Museums & Art Collections

*A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage*
 
 

 

 

 

 
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Meet the Danish Cultural History through generations
 
Free entry to: The National Gallery - The National Museum - Open Air Museum and Resistance Museum!
 
 
The Danish National Gallery
The Danish National Gallery displays 700 years of Western art and cultural history.
The National Gallery
Art & History - A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage

Free Entry - All year round!

The Danish National Gallery exhibiting 700 years of Western art and cultural history. The collection includes works by Tizian and Mantegna - Rubens and Rembrandt and much more famous painters and other artists.

A special collection is present with Danish artists and painters from the Golden Age era. Such as Eckersberg and Købke - and 20th century artists such as Henri Matisse - Edvard Munch - Emil Nolde as well as the Danish artists Asger Jorn - Per Kirkeby and many more.
 
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The National Museum
At the National Museum visitors can follow the history of the Danes right down to the present day.
 
The Sun Chariot from the 13th century is a national symbol and relic displayed at the National Museum.

The National Museum
History - A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage

Free Entry - All year round!

The National Museum is Denmark’s largest museum of Danish cultural history. The museum's main domicile is a classical 18th century mansion and is the museum for all of Denmark - where you can follow the history of the Danes right down to the present day.

The Sun Chariot from the 13th century and the Golden Horns of Gallehus from the early 5th century are national symbols and relics that draw visitors from all over the world to experience and admire.

 

 
 
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The Open Air Museum
Old framhouse from 18th century.
Open Air Museum
History - A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage

Free Entry - All year round!

The Open Air Museum north of Copenhagen is one of the largest and oldest in the world. Spread across 86 acres of land today the museum houses more than 50 farms - mills and houses from the period 1650-1950. The Open Air Museum has free admission and is a must for every tourist!
 
 
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The Danish Resistance Museum
Self made resistance vehicle in use 1945 - exhibited at the Resistance Museum.
Danish Resistance Museum
Danish History


Free Entry - All year round!

The museum tells the story of Danish resistance during Nazi occupation 1940-1945. It springs from an exhibition called Fighting Denmark - arranged by the Resistance Council in the summer of 1945. In 1957 a permanent museum was opened on the present location. The exhibition you see today was inaugurated in 1995.
 
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Copenhagen City Museum
The City Museum houses a vast collection of art and artefacts that tells the history of Copenhagen.
 

City Museum
History of Copenhagen

Free Entry - Every Friday

Copenhagen City Museum tells the prime history of the city - and displays the Søren Kierkegaard collection.

 
 
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Thorvaldsen Sculpture Museum
Statue of Polish General Poniatowski - from 1846. The president Palace - Warsaw.
 
The sculpture of Christ is one of the most popular works of Thorvaldsen. Copenhagen’s Cathedral.

Thorvaldsen Museum
Art & History

Free Entry - Every Wednesday

Bertel Thorvaldsen Sculpture Museum Danish Sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) showing his collection of paintings and sculptures.

Visitor will experience Pope Pius 7th. plaster monument that was modelled 1824-25 by Bertel Thorvaldsen and unveiled in the marble in St Peter’s Church in 1831. The huge marble monument can be admired at the tomb of Pope Pius 7th. in St. Peter's Cathedral and Basilica - Vatican City - Rome. Pope Pius 7th. was pope from 1800 to his death in 1823.

Thorvaldsen’s sculpture - depicting Christ - was one of the most popular works of Bertel Thorvaldsen. The sculpture depicts the resurrected Christ revealing himself to the congregation with marks on his hands and feet from the crucifixion. The sculpture of Christ in marble is placed at the high alter at Vor Frue Kirke (The Church of Our Lady) also named Copenhagen’s Cathedral together with the marbles sculptures of the 12 disciples and the baptismal font.
 
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The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Wide collections of sculptures and a broad art collection of genuine paintings and art.
 
Claude Monet - Flood at Giverny - Oil on canvas - 1896-1897- is a part of the art collection at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

 
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Art & History

Free Entry - Every Sunday

The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek with its beautiful sub-tropical Winter Garden and extensive collections of sculptures and paintings surrounded by a museum building created in the fine art of classicism and inaugurated in 1897 - is a place of art and culture in Copenhagen.

A broad art collection of genuine paintings by famous Impressionists like Monet - Renoir - Degas - Cézanne and other leading Post Impressionists as van Gogh - Toulouse-Lautrec - Paul Gauguin etc. - are well represented too and on display in the new building.


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The Hirschsprung Collection
A nude woman doing her hair before a mirror. C.W. Eckersberg - 1841.
 
P.S. Krøyer's famous masterpiece - Summer evening on the beach at Skagen. The painter and his wife 1899.

 
The Hirschsprung Collection
Genuine Danish Art from the19th and early 20th century

Free Entry - Every Wednesday*

The Hirschsprung Collection is an art museum located in a beautiful parkland - just beyond the old ramparts of Copenhagen and Rosenborg Castle. The museum houses the private art collection of tobacco manufacturer and patron of the arts Heinrich Hirschsprung. His marvelous art collection was founded in 1865 with genuine Danish art - and expanded with works of Danish master painters trough the 19th and early 20th century - highlighting the Danish Golden Age - from 1800 to 1850 - as well as the “Skagen Painters” - and other representatives of the “Modern Breakthrough” era are well represented. Heinrich Hirschsprung donated is unique and precious art collection to the Danish state in 1902 - and the paintings represents a valuable part of the Danish Cultural Heritage. At the Museum one will experience works of Danish Master Painters like: P.S. Krøyer - C.W. Eckersberg - Michael Ancher - Anna Ancher - J.Th. Lundbye - Christen Købke - Kristian Zahrtmann - Vilhelm Hammershøi - L.A. Ring and many more celebrities from the magnificent Danish art world.

The Collection

*Except for Special Exhibitions
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Rosenborg Castle - 1606
Rosenborg Castle from 1606 - and the beautiful King's Garden was build and established by King Christian IV has his summer residence.
 
The Crown of King Christian V - and Queen Charlotte Amalie from 1670 - are kept safely in the castle cellar.
Rosenborg Castle - King Christian IVs Castle
History - A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage

A Renaissance Summer Residence
He built Rosenborg - He lived all his life at Rosenborg - He died at his beloved Rosenborg. And most of his adult life King Christian IV just adored his favourite summer residence - Rosenborg. Here you will find royal history - antique furnisher - royal artefacts and ornaments - beautiful park area etc. The castle museum enlightens the history of the Danish Oldenburg Kings through 300 years.

The Crown Jewels - Museum
In 1838 Rosenborg Castle was opened as a museum to the public together with the Royal Crown Jewels and the Danish Crown Regalia kept safely in the castle cellars.

Great Tourist attraction
This renaissance castle and royal museum is a great tourist attraction in Copenhagen - and located in the centre of the city. The King's Garden is the oldest royal garden in Denmark - which also was established in renaissance style by King Christian IV. The royal park and garden area is a very popular retreat and is visited by an estimated 2.5 million people per year.
 
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Amalienborg Museum
The Amalienborg Museum displays the private royal apartments from 1863-1972 of the Glücksborg Dynasty.
Amalienborg Museum - King Christian VIII's Palace
Royal History

King Christian VIII's Palace houses the Amalienborg museum that displays the history of the Glücksborg Dynasty and their private royal apartments from 1863-1972 - including the original furnishings and many exiting artefacts and robes.

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Outside of Copenhagen
 
The Ark - Arken Museum
The Museum of Modern Art is situated 20 km from Copenhagen.

ARKEN Museum - The Ark
The Museum of Modern Art

Just 20kilometres (12 miles) from Copenhagen is ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. ARKEN's collection comprises more than 300 works of art. The main part of them can be seen in ARKEN's permanent exhibition.

ARKEN collects Danish - Nordic and international art with special emphasis on contemporary art from 1990 onwards.

 
 
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Museum of Hunting and Forestry
The Museum of Hunting and Forestry takes visitors back in time - from the Stone Age to the present century.

The Danish Museum of Hunting and Forestry
A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage

Free Entry - Every Wednesday

The Danish Museum of Hunting and Forestry takes you way back in time - from the Stone Age up to present - with a vast collection of artefacts and object that covers the cultural history and the development of hunting and forestry in Denmark.
 
 
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The Karen Blixen Museum
"Ewald’s Room" where Karen Blixen wrote many of her internationally renowned stories surrounded by her many artefacts from Africa.
The Karen Blixen Museum - Rungstedlund
World literature - art - history - A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage

Beside the private home of Karen Blixen - the museum has a documentary exhibition about Karen Blixen’s life and work - Karen Blixen’s drawings and paintings plus special exhibitions and activities.

Karen Blixen’s birthplace Rungstedlund and museum is situated in North Sealand - just on the sea shores of Oresound - and the landscape behind has 40 acres of park and garden - meadows - groves and her final resting place on “Ewald’s Hill”. The area is preserved as a bird sanctuary.
 
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Kronborg Castle - 1574
Kronborg Castle is also called "Hamlets Castle" - immortalised by Shakespeare.
Kronborg Castle was added to the World Heritage List year 2000 - by the UN organization UNESCO - and is now a member of the world's cultural legacy.
Kronborg Castle - Hamlets Castle
History - A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage

Kronborg Castle or Hamlets Castle - immortalised by Shakespeare - is situated at Helsingør or "Elsinore" and built by King Frederik II in 1574-84. See all the antique furnisher - medieval artefacts - casemates - military barracks etc.

The Danish Maritime Museum exhibits many fascinating and historical objects - paintings and photographs that are exhibited at the museum - portray the history of Danish shipping and naval history from the Renaissance up to the present.

 
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Frederiksborg Castle - 1600
Frederiksborg Castle from 1600 - houses the Museum of National History. The castle is the finest and biggest Renaissance edifice ever seen in Northern Europe.
Frederiksborg Castle - Museum of National History
Art & History - A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage

Frederiksborg Castle - Museum of National History is situated in the town of Hillerød with a unique art collection that is world famous - and a sanctuary for art lovers as well as for new and old museum goers.

A visit at these Royal premises and authentic surroundings is a must - and will bring one back in Danish and Royal history for ever!
 
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Royal Mausoleum
 
Roskilde Cathedral
Royal Masoleum - Roskilde Cathedral. The final resting place for all the Danish Royalties since the 15th century
In 1995 Roskilde Cathedral was included in UNESCO's list of the world's inalienable cultural treasures and select by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.
Royal Mausoleum - Roskilde Cathedral
History - A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage

Roskilde Cathedral from the 12th century houses the biggest and most outstanding Mausoleum in the world - and has been the final resting place for all the Danish Royalties since the 15th century and after the protestant reformation in 1536. There are gorgeous sarcophaguses of 39 Kings and Queens as well as family members of successive rulers and their descendants.
 
More Museums with Free Entry all year round
The David Collection - Kroppedal Museum - The Royal Cast Collection (National Gallery) - The Danish Music Museum
 
Museums with Free Entry - Every Wednesday
National Museum of Military History - The Royal Danish Arsenal Museum - The Royal Danish Naval Museum - The Post and Tele Museum .
 

This Museum Site - will be updated frequently!

 
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