Danish Museum of Art & Design

The Design Museum Danmark, Det danske earlier Kunstindustrimuseum is a museum for industrial design, applied arts and design in Copenhagen.

History

The museum was by the Industrial Foreningen i København (now Dansk Industri) Founded in 1890, the Ny Carlsberg Museumslegat, operator of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, and is open to the public since 1895.

First, the museum was on HC Andersen Boulevard in the center of the city. In the early 1920s the 1752-1757 built in the rococo style, named after King Frederik V Kongelig Frederiks Hospital was renovated at the Bredgade of the architect Ivar Bentsen and Kaare Klint and adapted to the needs of a museum. 1926 saw the move into the building of the Kongelige Frederiks Hospital near Amalienborg Palace.

Exhibitions and Collections

The permanent exhibition includes various design objects by Danish designers from different eras such as Arne Jacobsen, Poul Henningsen, Kaare Klint and Jacob Jensen as well as a large collection of historic European and Asian operations. Among Chinese ceramics, porcelain German and English furniture. By Arne Jacobsen, among other things designed for the SAS Royal Hotel Swan Chair and egg are issued. The museum maintains the Marilyn Arnold Palley and founded by Reese Palley furnitureindex, a collection of over 10,000 Danish furniture of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Another collection includes Danish and international textiles and garments.

The museum houses the largest public library open design and artwork in Scandinavia.

For the film, The Olsen gang, the first part of the film series of the same name, served the museum in 1968 as a backdrop. In the film, the crooks stole a precious, Bavarian sculpture from the museum.