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The Designmuseum Denmark () is a museum in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

for Danish and international design and crafts. It features works of famous Danish designers like

Arne Jacobsen Arne Emil Jacobsen, Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects, Hon. FAIA (; 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to functionalism (architec ...

Jacob Jensen Jacob Jensen (29 April 1926 – 15 May 2015) was a Danish industrial designer best known for his work with Bang & Olufsen. Jensen designed numerous popular high-end consumer products, developing a functional minimalism style that formed a prom ...

and

Kaare Klint Kaare Klint (15 December 1888 – 28 March 1954) was a Danish architect and furniture designer, known as the father of modern Danish furniture design. His style was epitomized by clean, pure lines, use of the best materials of his time and ...

, who was one of the two architects who remodeled the former

Frederiks Hospital The royal Frederiks Hospital was Denmark's first hospital in the present-day meaning of the word. It was founded by king Frederik V and financed by the earnings from the Norwegian Postal Service. The buildings, situated in Bredgade in Copen ...

(built 1752–57) into a museum in the 1920s. The exhibition also features a variety of Chinese and German

porcelain Porcelain (), also called china, is a ceramic material made by heating Industrial mineral, raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between . The greater strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to oth ...

. The museum was known as the Danish Museum of Art & Design () until 2011 and known as the Danish Museum of Decorative Art prior.

History

The museum was founded in 1890 at the initiative of, among others, Industriforeningen. A purpose-built building designed by

Vilhelm Klein Vilhelm Klein (6 March 1835 – 10 February 1913) was a Danish architect who adopted the Historicist approach, frequently emulating the so-called Rosenborg style and the Italian Renaissance style. Early life Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the ...

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 craftspeople and manufacturers by highlighting the very best in build quality and design from different ages. 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

and

Ivar Bentsen Ivar Bentsen (13 November 1876 – 21 May 1943) was a Denmark, Danish architect and educator. He was a central figure in the Bedre-Byggeskik movement and succeeded Carl Petersen as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts's School ...

had undertaken the necessary alterations and furnishings.

Library and archives

The museum is home to the largest library in

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dedicated to decorative arts and industrial design. Open to the general public, the library is at once a museum library,

research library A research library is a library that contains an in-depth collection of material on one or several subjects.(Young, 1983; p. 188) A research library will generally include an in-depth selection of materials on a particular topic or set of top ...

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

Furnitureindex

Designmuseum Denmark hosts the Furnitureindex, an online database of Danish furniture from the 20th and 21st centuries. The database is in English and contains over 12,000 records. The database was founded in 2000 by Marilyn and Reese Palley as the ''Palley Index Of Danish Furniture: 1900-2000''. Designmuseum Denmark made the database publicly available online in 2003 after it was acquired by the Realdania Foundation.

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.

Cultural references

In the first Olsen Gang film, Bredgade 68 is where the

Olsen Gang The ''Olsen Gang'' (, ) is a Danish comedy film series created by Danish director Erik Balling and special effects expert Henning Bahs about the eponymous fictional criminal gang. The gang's leader is the criminal genius and habitual offender ...

steals the golden statue.

References

External links

Danish Museum of Art & Design: website

Furnitureindex.dk furnitureindex.dk: Danish furniture from the 20th and 21st centuries
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