museum – Page 2

Dantes Plads 7, 1556 København V

Free admission on sundays, otherwise DKK 75.
Closed on Mondays, open Tuesday – Sunday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

The Glyptotek is an art museum, I quote Wikipedia: “The collection is built around the personal collection of Carl Jacobsen (1842–1914), the son of the founder of the Carlsberg Breweries.
Primarily a sculpture museum as indicated by the name, the focal point of the museum is antique sculpture from the ancient cultures around the Mediterranean including Egypt, Rome and Greece, as well as more modern sculptures such as a collection of Rodin works which is considered the most important outside France. However, the museum is equally noted for its collection of painting that includes an extensive collection of French impressionists and Post-impressionists as well as Danish Golden Age paintings.”

Personally I thought it was not very well organized / indicated, but possible that the construction work that closed some rooms complicated things when we went there. Also, we lacked a bit of time because we arrived only an hour (or 1:30?) before closing.

Ophelia – Agathon Van Weydevelt Léonard

And the winter garden is really really nice (my pictures really don’t do it justice).

Sunday June 22the was Museums day with Fleur.
We started with the National Museum.
The website for all information, but here are the most important things:
– the Museum is located Ny Vestergade 10, 1471 Copenhagen K
It is near Rådhuspladsen for the transports, and the street faces the Glyptotek, a building hard to miss. The Museum itself is a bit in a setback so one can’t really see it before being in front of it.
– the admission is free for everyone everyday for the permanent exhibition.
– the Museum is closed on Mondays, and open Tuesday-Sunday from 10 a.m to 4.30 p.m.
– one has to leave bags (unless it is a small one) in lockers, the Museum’s website says to bring DKK 10 as a deposit but it was actually free.

The rest in pictures.

“Hair in the form of braided locks was also sacrificed in the bogs. Sometimes several plaits were tied together. These Deposits can be seen as both small and large sacrifices.
Small, because the hair was easily available, large, because one gave away the most beautiful thing one had.”