Museums in Copenhagen

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Copenhagen has always been a city where art could flourish. Today Danish are known for their reductive functional design with takes objects to their most essential form. It seems almost impossible that this is the same that in the 19th century was swept by the Romantic movement that leaded to the so called Danish Golden Age. In Copenhagen, more than 50 museums all tell their own story about the land, the city and it’s people. Each story different and none complete. If you should venture to try to see them all, there is a special ticket which allows you to see as many as possible in one, two or three days. Some museums also have special days when no admission is charged. Outside Copenhagen Louisiana and ARKEN are also worth a visit.

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Tuborg Bryggerierne

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address:Strandvejen 54
openinghours:Monday till Friday 8.30-16.30h.
tel:4531293311

Tycho Brahe Planetarium

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address:Gl. Kongevej 10
url:www.tycho.dk
openinghours:Tuesday till Thursday 9.00-22.00h, Friday and Saturday 11.00-23.00h
tel:4533121224

ARKEN

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This Museum, 20 km (12 miles) south of Copenhagen, looks like an huge vessel that has stranded on the coast of Denmark. As is a trend among today’s museum builders, architect Søren Robert Lund made ARKEN the showpiece of its exhibitions. The museum was opened in 1996 and has its focal point on all forms of Danish, Scandinavian and international art from 1945 and onward. The building is organised around the imposing main room which, like a huge banana penetrates the other spaces.

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address: Skovvej 100, Ishøj Strandpark, Ishøj
url:www.arken.dk
tel:4543540222

Louisiana

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trio of warhols
trio of warhols
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Also a visit to this museum is an experience in itself. Louisiana has grown in a circle at the coast of Øresund. Pavilions in different stiles are bound together like a necklace to shelter a unique collection of modern art. Especially the Giacometti is a site in itself. When weather allows you can have a picnic in the central clearing. But even when rain pours down it is a place of interesting harmonics and contrasts.

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address: Gammel Strandvej 13, Humlebæk
url:www.louisiana.dk
tel:4549190719

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

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The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek has a vast collection of sculpture in which there are over thirty works by the French sculptor Rodin. This makes it the most important Rodin collection outside France. In addition, the museum displays sculptures by Degas, Canova, Rauch and Kai Nielsen and a large collection of antique Greek, Egyptian, Etruscan and Roman sculpture. It collection of paintings may be somewhat smaller but of equal high quality with artists like Géricault, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. One of the showpieces is a magnificent self-portrait by Cézanne and the more..

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admission:30.00 DKK
address:Dantes Plads 7
url:www.kulturnet.dk
tel:4533418141

Dansk Architectur Gammel Dok

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This is somesort of museum, but its actually more of an information center on architecture, with an exhibition facility on the first floor. Quite pretentious, but in an interesting "pakhus".

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address:Strandgade 27B
openinghours: Tuesday and Thursday till Friday, 10.00-17.00h. Wednesday also 10.00-22.00h
tel:4531571930

Nationalmuseet

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Housed in a 17th century mansion formally inhabited by the princes of Denmark's, the culture-historical museum tells a history of more than 10,000 years. The collection contains not only Danish finds but finds and items from around the world from Egyptian, classical, and mediaeval times. The museum also shows a couple of periodical rooms.

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admission:40.00 DKK
address:Valkendorfsgade 13
url:http:\\www.natmus.dk
openinghours:Monday till Thursday 9.00-16.00h, Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00h.
tel:4533134411

Statens Museum for Kunst

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This is Denmark’s largest museum on art with a scope that goes form medieval painting to modern installations and onward. Recently enlarged the exhibition space has doubled. The emphasis is still on Dutch 17th century and Danish 19th century painting, two Golden Ages. Wednesdays free admission.

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address: Sølvgade 48-50
openinghours:Monday till Friday 8.30-16.30h.
tel:4533748494

Thorvaldsen museum

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Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) lived over forty years in Rome. As sculptor he can easily withstand comparison with contemporaries like Antonio Canova or François Rude. At his death, he left his city of birth a vast collection of sculptures and paintings. The neo-classical sculptor now rests among this collections in the central court. The museum itself is a work of art with painted walls and ceilings based on Roman and Etruscan excavations. In these dark chambers, Thorvaldsens white marble sculptures standout in a way they were intended. In the basement, one can see the drawing more..

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admission:20.00 DKK
address:Porthusgade 2
url:www.laer-it.dk
openinghours:Tuesday till Sunday 11.00-17.00h
tel:4533321532

Kunstindustrie Museet

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address:Bredgade 68
openinghours:Tuesday till Sunday, 13.00-16.00h.
tel:4533149452

Carlsberg Museet

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The history of the probably most famous beer and brewery in the world.

After the tour taste the free samples.

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address:Valby Langgade 1
openinghours:Monday till Friday, 8.30-16.00h
tel:4531210112

Legetøjmuseet

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address:Valkendorfsgade 13
openinghours:Monday till Thursday 9.00-16.00h, Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00h.
tel:4533141009

København Bymuseum

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address:Vesterbrogade 59
openinghours:Thuesday till Friday 13.00-16.00h. (In summer they open at 10.00)
tel:4531210772

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