The National Museum is Denmark's primary cultural history museum. Housed in a beautiful eighteenth-century palace in the centre of Copenhagen, the extensively renovated and extended museum is a vibrant cultural centre, offering a broad spectrum of exhibitions and activities. The permanent collections portray more than 10.000 years of history, providing insights into the world of the past and foreign cultures worldwide. The various temporary exhibitions focus upon a number of different periods and themes. Exhibitions on a smaller scale take place troughout the year in the museum's foyer and exhibition halls.

Permanent Collections

Danish Prehistory (13000 BC-1050 AD)
From the reindeer hunters of the Ice age to Viking Denmark told through aecheological discoveries from the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages.

Middle Ages and Renaissance Denmark (1050-1660)
Danish society in the period before and after the Reformation. Collections of church art, costumes, weapons, arts and crafts etc.

Seventeenth-century Denmark
The Prince's Palace and the history of the museum.

The Royal Collection af Coins and Medals
The history of coins in Denmark from Viking times to today, together with the coins of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

The Collection of Egyptian and cCassical Antiquities
Collections from the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece and Italy. Scandinavia's largest collection of Greek ceramics from Geometric to the Hellenistic period.

Ethnographic Collection
A journey around the world which begins with the Native Americans and ends with the Inuit peoples. Exhibits from throughout the world.

"Please touch" exhibition from Greenland


THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
In the children's museum different cultures and periods can be experienced through play in a varietyof settings. Among the possibilities are the chance to sail a Viking ship, sit in a classroom from the days when great grandmother went to school, experience life with North Africa's nomads and visit a Middle Ages castle.

The National Museum's Victorian Home
An apartment with original interior from around the turn of the century. Guided tours leave the foyer once an hour. 16. sept. - 15. june: Sat. & Sun.: 12-15. 16. June - 15. Sept: Thurs., Fri., Sat. & Sun.: 12-15


Temporary Exhibitions

Margrete I - Regent of the North
Until April 1 1997

In 1997 we can celebrate the fact that it was 600 years ago that the three Nordic kingdoms Denmark, Norway (including Iceland) and Sweden (including Finland) were united in a political union under Queen Margrete I. Based on Margrete I this joint Nordic exhibition portrays the period's cultural history and depicts one of the most significant women of the Middle Ages.


Other Exhibitions

ELDORADO? SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS IN ANDES AND THE AMAZONES
Until December 31 1999




Brede
Brede Museum
Open-Air
Open-Air Museum
Resistance
Resistance Museum

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