No, it's not Paris. You are in Copenhagen!
Ok, you like to go from museums, but not to the point of soaking up the best of Danish art during your visit to **Copenhagen.** No problem. The city has several cultural spaces with collections at the level of London, Hong Kong or Paris and with a plus that none of these capitals has: Scandinavian know-how.
A visit to any of these three museums, even though they are very different from each other, it is an experience in itself.
LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Here, the Stendhal syndrome is multiplied by three. That's why you're 30 minutes by train from central Copenhagen it is a lesser evil. North of the Danish capital, in Humlebaek , the first of the great attractions of this museum can be enjoyed even before walking through the door.
Its location, by the sea and overlooking the nearby Swedish coast, guarantees a shot of natural beauty that few showrooms can match.
Is impressive 1950s modernist style mansion , with huge windows and open spaces that give all the prominence to the exhibited works and the environment in which they are found, refers to the life of its first owner.
alexander brun He was a man belonging to the nobility of the country whose life was marked by a name. Louise were the names of the three women he married. The coincidence baptized the building, which later passed into the hands of the art collector Knud W. Jensen. He was the one in charge of reconverting this country house in a museum.
By the time you begin to soak up his artistic catalogue, of more than 3,000 works, you have already fainted twice. To say that his collection makes Louisiana a MoMa's miniature version has a meaning beyond easy narrative device.
To say that it is a miniature version of MoMa is not just an easy narrative device
The way in which its collection is structured follows the same pattern as that of the New York giant, with a vision of modern art that gives rise not only to painting. Design, architecture, sculpture and audiovisual count as much or more than paintings. Current trends **(Bill Viola's video art, Andreas Gursky's photography and David Hockney's painting) ** coexist with modern classics (Giacometti, Calder, Picasso Henry Moore).
** GLYPTOTEKET SCULPTURES LIFE**
To go through the rooms of this sculpture museum is to go through the history of our civilization. From the Greeks, Romans and Etruscan culture to the essential Rodin's generation. Its rooms summarize in 10,000 works the hopes and fears of society in the last six millennia, in addition to their different conceptions of beauty.
And all this around marriage between the glass and the palm trees of its interior tropical garden, which is a more collected and welcoming version of the one at Madrid's Atocha station. The full name of the museum gives a clue as to who its benefactor is: Ny Carlsberg Glypoteket is the fruit of private collection of Carl Jacobsen , who inherited the Carlsberg brewing company from his father at the end of the 19th century.
Ny Carlsberg Glypoteket
** DESIGN MUSEUM, THE EVERYDAY ART**
This design museum, like the one in London, knows how to communicate to the visitor that we live surrounded by art, without often noticing it. Furniture found in classrooms, cafeterias and libraries and decorative and industrial objects who have accompanied us in our own homes
In addition to essential names, such as Eames or Le Corbusier, this museum finds a niche of its own by paying special attention to a local talent, that of Arne Jacobsen. He created the Swan armchair, minimalist and in the shape of the swans of the stories of his compatriot Hans Christian Andersen. The Ant chair and the Grand Prix they are also part of his legacy.
Copenhagen's design museum's selection of creations isn't just limited to Western aesthetics; the asian continent and its influence on European design also have a place in the permanent collection of this museum.
This place in the center of Copenhagen is a former hospital where Kierkegaard died and also the best example of rococo architecture in the city. **Their restaurant menu includes a selection of Smørrebrød**, the Danish equivalent of Spanish tapas that everyone should try.
We live surrounded by art, without often noticing it