Art museums in Copenhagen

We visited quite a few museums both on the way in and out of Copenhagen and in the city itself.  On the way in to town we stopped at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.  The setting for this museum is absolutely gorgous as it sits on the Sound and is surrounded by beautiful gardens.  Lots of people, families, were enjoying the parks and the water outside of this museum.  Inside, there was a huge installation by several artists about different ways of "living" like in treehouses and the like from all over the world.  Also, an exhibit by David Hockey about drawing using an I-Pad.

In Copenhagen, we visited the National Gallery of Art which for my purposes, was one of the most accessible museums we visited, something that was very important to me the day after I fell at Kronberg Castle.  The art ranged from French to Scandanavian painters and from the Renaissance to modern art, which should provide the students on the trip with excellent examples for their  research papers.

We walked from there to the Hirschprung Collection, located in the same block. Here the art was arranged as if it were in a home and included period furniture from the artists´ homes.  The paintings were from the Golden Age in Denmark.

The least accessible both physically and otherwise for me was Thorvaldsen`s Museum.  Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish sculpture very famous in Denmark and the museum houses not just his sculptures but everything he collected including ancient from Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

On the way out of town we went to the Arken Museum of Modern Art which sits on the Sound a few miles out of Copenhagen.  We enjoyed the exhibit of Anna Archer a Danish painter who, even though she wasn't allowed to enter the Academy because she was a woman, became a highly-regarded painter in the late 19th century and early 20th century.  There was also an installation which the students enjoyed experiencing several times which made the participants feel like they were in a dense fog with various kinds of light.