Showing posts with label SMK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SMK. Show all posts
Monday, August 27, 2012
National Art Museum
Copenhagen weather might not always be suited for outdoor activities and then it's nice to have other options. One of the better ones is the National Art Museum (Statens Museum for Kunst) where you can marvel at art from medieval times to the present. To visit the collections is free but you'll usually have to pay a fee to see one of the special exhibitions like the one about Matisse that is on at the moment.
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Art,
Copenhagen,
Denmark,
Matisse,
National Art Museum,
SMK,
Statens Museum for Kunst,
Weather
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Casts are not only for broken limbs
The Royal Cast Collection which is a department of the National Museum of Art is a nice little museum if you like classical sculptures. Here is not the originals but a lot of plaster casts and a few replicas in bronze and wood of some of the best known classical works of art. A total of 2.500 casts are on display which doesn't give much room for the visitors. Situated in an old warehouse in Toldbodgade with a fantastic view of the harbour and right next to Amalienborg Palace, it should be crammed with visitors but as it's only open on Sundays (2pm - 5pm) and on Tuesday (10am - 4pm) many tourists with limited time end up elsewhere. The photo was shot out of the windows and show the piece-de-resistance, a bronze copy of Michelangelo's David on the quay and in the background the Norwegian naval training ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl.
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Art,
Cast,
Classical art,
David,
Harbour,
Michelangelo,
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National Museum of Art,
Plaster,
Replica,
Royal Cast Collection,
SMK,
Statsraad Lehmkuhl,
Tall Ship,
Training ship
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