Design Museum Danmark

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Design Museum Danmark
Kunstindustrimuseet copenhagen.jpg
The museum taken from Bredgade, September 2008
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place Copenhagen , Denmark
Art
Design museum
opening 1895
Website
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The inner courtyard of the museum is also used as a venue, September 2008

The Designmuseum Danmark , formerly Det danske Kunstindustrimuseum is a museum for industrial design , applied arts and design in Copenhagen .

history

The museum was founded in 1890 by Industriforeningen i København (now Dansk Industri ) and the Ny Carlsberg Museumslegat , operator of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek , and has been open to the public since 1895.

At first the museum was on HC-Andersen-Boulevard in the center of the city. At the beginning of the 1920s, the Rococo style building from 1752 to 1757 and named after King Frederik V , Kongelig Frederiks Hospital on Bredgade was renovated by architects Ivar Bentsen and Kaare Klint and adapted to the needs of a museum. In 1926 the company moved to the Kongelige Frederiks Hospital building near Amalienborg Palace .

Exhibitions and collections

The permanent exhibition includes different design objects by Danish designers from different eras such as Arne Jacobsen , Poul Henningsen , Kaare Klint and Jacob Jensen as well as a large collection of historical European and Asian works. Including Chinese ceramics , German porcelain and English furniture. The Swan and Egg armchairs designed for the SAS Royal Hotel by Arne Jacobsen are on display. The museum maintains the furnitureindex , founded by Marilyn Arnold Palley and Reese Palley , a collection of over 10,000 Danish furniture from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Another collection includes Danish and international textiles and clothing.

The museum houses the largest publicly accessible specialist library for design and applied arts in Scandinavia .

For the film Die Olsenbande , the first part of the film series of the same name , the museum served as the backdrop in 1968. In the film, the crooks stole a valuable Bavarian sculpture from the museum.

Web links

Commons : Designmuseum Danmark  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Historie og formål ( Memento from July 14, 2011 on WebCite ), accessed on August 31, 2012 (Danish)
  2. ↑ Florian Hufnagl: Design museums of the world . Ed .: New Museum Nuremberg. Birkhäuser, 2004, ISBN 3-7643-6741-5 . P. 58
  3. ↑ Furnitureindex.dk (English)
  4. ↑ Library information ( Memento of March 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)


Coordinates: 55 ° 41 '10.95 "  N , 12 ° 35' 36.06"  O