Danish Museum of Art & Design

Danish Museum of Art & Design
Designmuseum Danmark
The facade towards Bredgade
Established 1907
Location 68 Bredgade
Copenhagen, Denmark
Coordinates 55°41′10.95″N 12°35′36.06″E / 55.6863750°N 12.5933500°E / 55.6863750; 12.5933500Coordinates: 55°41′10.95″N 12°35′36.06″E / 55.6863750°N 12.5933500°E / 55.6863750; 12.5933500
Director Anne-Louise Sommer
Website Official website
Ticket-pin
The courtyard in front of the museum by night

The Danish Museum of Art & Design (formerly, Danish Museum of Decorative Art; Danish: Kunstindustrimuseet) is a museum in Copenhagen for Danish and international design and crafts. It features works of famous Danish designers like Arne Jacobsen, Jacob Jensen and Kaare Klint, who was one of the two architects who remodeled the former Frederiks Hospital (built 1752–57) into a museum in the 1920s. The exhibition also features a variety of Chinese and German porcelain.

The museum houses the biggest library for design in Scandinavia. It also hosts a fully annotated and illustrated database of all furniture made in Denmark from 1900 to 2000, originally compiled by Reese and Marilyn Palley and later donated to and further developed by the museum.

History

The museum was founded in 1890 at the initiative of, among others, Industriforeningen. A purpose-built building designed by Vilhelm Klein and located next to Industriforeningen's premises on City Hall Square was completed in 1894 and opened to the public the following year. The exhibitions were housed in separate galleries, each dedicated to a particular field such as porcelain, faience, silver, furniture, glass and textiles. This arrangement reflected the primary aim of the museum which was to serve as a source of inspiration for craftsmen and manufacturers by highlighting the very best in craftsmenship and design from different ages.[1]

In 1926 the museum moved to its current building, the defunct Frederick's Hospital from 1757, a gift from the banker Emil Glückstadt. The architects Kaare Klint and Ivar Bentsen had undertaken the necessary alterations and furnishings.[1]

Library and archives

The Kaare Klint-designed reading room

The museum is home to the largest library in Scandinavia dedicated to decorative arts and industrial design.[2] Open to the general public, the library is at once a museum library, research library, and Danish central library within its field. Opening hours are Tuesday–Friday from 11–17. The library contains more than 1,000 journals. The latest issues of the 75 journals and magazines which the museum subscribes to can be read in the library's reading room.[3]

The reading room of the library hosts public lectures on design-related topics which draw upon the collections in both the museum and the library.[4]

The Danish Design Archive and the Poster Collection are located on the museum's first floor.

Auditorium

The museum has a small auditorium on the first floor seating 120 people. It is rented out for lectures, concerts, receptions and other events.[5]

Among the events which take place in the auditorium are chamber music concerts with musicians from Copenhagen Philharmonic. Marketed under the name ½12 Concerts, they take place on Sundays at 11.30 am and tickets are sold at the entrance for DKK 90 (DKK 50 for members).

Cultural references

In the first Olsen Gang film, Bredgade 68 is where the Olsen Gang steals the golden statue.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Designmuseum Danmark". Gyldendal. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. ↑ "Bibliotek: Information" (in Danish). Designmuseum Danmark. Archived from the original on 2011-11-04. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
  3. ↑ "Bibliotek: Tidsskrifter" (in Danish). Designmuseum Danmark. Archived from the original on 2011-11-18. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
  4. ↑ "Foredrag i biblioteket" (in Danish). Designmuseum Danmark. Archived from the original on 2011-10-19. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
  5. ↑ "Leje af lokaler" (in Danish). Designmuseum Danmark. Archived from the original on 2011-10-17. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  6. ↑ "Olsen Banden Die Olsenbande". olsenbande-homepage.deke (in Danish). Retrieved 2014-05-29.
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