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Nationalmuseet

Denmark’s largest museum, the National Museum presents the
history and culture of the Danes from prehistoric times to the
present. It also houses a wonderful collection of Greek and
Egyptian antiquities, an ethnographic collection and the Children’s
Museum. Many of the displays derive from King Frederik III’s Royal
Cabinet of Curiosities, put together around 1650.

NEED TO KNOW
MAP J5 • Ny
Vestergade 10 • 33 13
44 11 • www.natmus.dk
Open 10am–5pm daily
Free guided tours: Jun–
Sep: 11am Tue, Thu &
Sun; Oct–May: Sat & Sun
Victorian Home:
Frederiksholms Kanal
18; open: Jun–Sep: 2pm
Sat (only via a guided
tour, buy tickets at the
museum); adm 50 Dkr,
concessions 40 Dkr, Room 117
under-18s free 1
This 18th-century bourgeois interior can be
• The Victorian Home, traced to the town of Aalborg in Jutland. A room
a plush apartment with in a sea of glass-display galleries, it features a
beautiful, authentic heavy wooden four-poster bed (above), chest,
19th-century interiors, coffered wooden ceiling and mullioned windows.
owned by the museum,
Gundestrup
Denmark’s
is located nearby. 2 5
• Have brunch or open Oldest Coin Cauldron
sandwiches at the café. The name of Denmark Found near Gundestrup,
and an image of a Danish this lovely silver cauldron
Museum Guide king are depicted on this from the Iron Age is
Fronted by a courtyard, silver coin, displayed in decorated with animals
the museum’s entrance Room 144, that was and mystical figures.
hall has toilets, lockers struck in AD 995.
and the museum shop,
which sells interesting Prehistoric Denmark
books and educational 3
and the Viking Age
toys with a Viking twist. The museum’s most popular exhibit
The Children’s Museum is this display of the country’s
(see p52) is to your left. 14,000-year history. These intri cate
The ground floor has the golden horns (right) were recon-
prehistoric collection, structed in the 20th century.
while the first floor has
a range of displays. Cylinder Perspective
There’s a Danish history 4
Table
collection on the second
floor, and the antiquities Part of Frederik III’s Royal Cabinet
are on the third floor. of Curiosities, the table shows him
Temporary exhibitions and his wife painted ingeniously in a
rotate regularly. distorted perspective, rectified when
viewed in the reflective cylinder.

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