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The manicured gardens of Botanisk Have
Botanisk Have
Den Hirschsprungske
4 6
Samling
MAP H2–J2 • Gothersgade
128; Øster Farimagsgade 2C • Open MAP J1 • Stockholmsgade 20 • 35 42
May–Sep: 8:30am–6pm daily; Oct– 03 36 • Open 11am–4pm Wed–Sun
Apr: 8:30am–4pm daily • www. • Adm; free with Copenhagen Card
botanik.snm.ku.dk • www.hirschsprung.dk
Among the prettiest outdoor spaces This small art museum is situated
in Copenhagen, these gardens are just behind the National Gallery and
studded with lakes, bridges and displays the collection of tobacco
lovely flowerbeds (see p64). Climb magnate Heinrich Hirschsprung,
the winding staircase for a great view given to the nation in 1902. Housed
of exotic trees below. The grounds in a 19th-century building, the large
are also home to three museums collection is fittingly dedicated to
which cover botany, geology and 19th- and early 20th-century Danish
zoology. By 2021, all three museums art, including works by painters
will be under one roof in the gardens. of the Golden Age and the North
Jutland colony of Skagen painters,
Davids Samling
5 known for their bright colours
MAP K3 • Kronprinsessegade
and luminous treatment of light.
30–32 • 33 73 49 49 • Open 10am– Contemporary furniture is also
5pm Tue–Sun (until 9pm Wed) displayed in the museum.
• www.davidmus.dk
Rosenborg Slot and
This museum holds the private art 7
collection of Danish Supreme Court Kongens Have
barrister and art lover, C L David. The Rosenborg Castle and the King’s
fine Islamic collection is Scandinavia’s Garden are among the city’s
largest, and includes a fine range of highlights (see p16–17), especially
Islamic art from the 8th to the 19th on sunny days when the park is
centuries. There is also a full of people and entertainment.
collection of 18th- and Rosenborg Slot was built in
19th-century European 1606–34 and is the only castle
decorative arts. The in the city centre that has
collection is set in an not succumbed to fire.
elegant 19th-century Little has changed
town house. about the structure
since the time the
Statue at royals inhabited it in
Rosenborg Slot the 17th century.

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