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Copenhagen - Your Art & Design Guide

Copenhagen Art and Design

Danish design is simple and timeless; it’s iconic yet it blends seamlessly into daily life. Danish artistic styles range from the evocative landscapes of the Skagen painters to the avant-garde twentieth-century CoBrA artists to today’s visionaries. See it all in museums in and around Copenhagen.

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Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Classical beauty
The Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman art collected by brewing magnate Carl Jacobsen has pride of place in this peaceful conservatory building. Filled with palm trees and exotic plants, it’s a museum like no other.

National Gallery of Denmark

Go big
The National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst) is the largest art museum in Denmark. It showcases 700 years of Danish and international artwork and installations—and admission to the permanent collection is free

Danish Design Centre

Knowledge base
Everything you ever wanted to know about Danish design is here. The DDC is an exhibition venue and meeting place for concept makers, designers and their admirers from around the world. The café and gift shop are great too!

Nikolaj

Divine inspiration
The former Nikolaj Church in the city center is now home to Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center. Each year the art space displays a series of thought-provoking—or just plain provocative—exhibitions of experimental art.

ARKEN

Leaving for the coast…
A short trip to the coast in Køge, 10 miles south of Copenhagen, takes you to this excellent museum of modern and contemporary art. Danish architect Søren Robert Lund designed the stunning building, inspired by ships and the sea.

Louisiana

Take a day away
Just 25 miles north of Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art provides an eye-opening break, whether you go to view an exhibition of modern art or architecture or simply take time to relax in the green space behind the museum.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

It’s academic
Kunsthal Charlottenborg at the Royal Danish Academy in the Nyhavn area is Copenhagen’s largest exhibition venue for contemporary art. Four to five international exhibitions in a variety of media are held here each year.

National Museum of Photography

Snap, snap—grin, grin
Within this 50,000-piece collection housed in the Royal Library you’ll find all manner of photographic works from early press photography and personal photo albums to contemporary photo and video art.

Royal Danish Collections

National treasures
The Crown Jewels are just one “facet” of the Royal Danish Collections at Amalienborg and Rosenborg castles. Exhibitions include artwork, costumes and other items of royal context presented in historical settings.

 
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