Copenhagen Museums & Galleries

Although our Copenhagen card gave us entry to almost every museum, they get quite tiring and monotonous once you’ve seen a couple. The ones we did visit however were very enjoyable!

Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket (Sunday 26/10). This was a very cool museum of statues all donated by Carl Jacobsen (son of the founder of Carlsberg beer). Some of the statues were 3000 years old which was crazy and very special to witness.

National Museum of Denmark (Sunday 26/10). This museum was pretty boring and hard to navigate our way through it so we speed walked the whole thing and didn’t take photos.

The SMK National Art Gallery (Tuesday 1/10) also contained many extremely old paintings, some from Matisse.

Cisternerne (Tuesday 1/10). This place used to be the city’s water reservoir. There is no natural light down there and it is extremely humid (but you couldn’t feel it as it was quite cold and damp). Each year an artist is invited to use the space. The artist this year was a lady named Taryn Simon who made an installation with lamentations by professional mourners in a number of different languages. It explores grief and the cries and noises have a reverberation of 17 seconds! It was pitch dark, extremely loud and very moving. It gave Iesha goosebumps and it made us both feel quite heavy with emotion as it was so powerful. Definitely Ethan’s favourite art installment he has seen.Read more