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Museums and Galleries

Teatermuseet
3
MAP J5 • Christiansborg
Ridebane 18 • 33 11 51 76
• Open noon–4pm Tue–Sun
• Adm; free with Copenhagen Card
• www.teatermuseet.dk
On display at this enthralling
museum are sections including the
stage, the auditorium and dressing
rooms of the 18th­century Royal
Theatre (see p46) that survived the
devastating fire of 1794.
Frihedsmuseet
4
The Danish Jødisk Museum The Museum of Danish
Resistance explores Danish life
Dansk Jødisk Museum
1 during the Nazi occupation of 1940–
45. The museum is currently closed
MAP K5 • Proviant-passangen
6 • 33 11 22 18 • Open Sep–May: until the end of 2019 due to extensive
1pm–4pm Tue–Fri, noon–5pm Sat– fire damage (see p79).
Sun; Jun–Aug: 10am–5pm Tue–Sun
Nationalmuseet
• Adm; free with Copenhagen Card 5
• www.jewmus.dk At Denmark’s largest museum
The Danish Jewish Museum tells the of cultural history you can explore
story of Denmark’s Jewish commu­ the history of the Danes right up to
nity. Designed by architect Daniel the present day (see pp30–31).
Libeskind, the interlocking interior Artifacts range from Iron Age burials
symbolizes Danish–Jewish good and Renaissance interiors to African
relations, its apogee the rescue of masks and houses on stilts. Check
7,000 Jews from the Nazis. out the museum’s spectacular
ethno­graphic collection, including
Designmuseum
2 the world’s oldest painting by South
Danmark
American Indians.
Denmark’s largest museum devoted
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
to design, the Designmuseum holds 6
Chinese and Japanese artifacts, along This museum houses a
with European medieval and Rococo fabulous collection of anti quities
arts. The other half is dedicated to from the Mediterranean coast, Egypt,
cutting­edge Danish 20th­ and Greece and Rome. You will also find
21st­century design (see p79). an impressive collection of 19th­ and
20th­century Danish and French fine
The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art on display (see p70).

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