
Copenhagen · Indre By
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
A brewer's collection of antiquity and French sculpture around a palm-filled winter garden
The winter garden under a glass dome, warm in February and full of palms
Carl Jacobsen brewed Carlsberg, bought antiquities and French sculpture on an industrial scale and gave the lot to the public in 1897 with a building to keep it in. The holdings run from Egyptian and Etruscan through Roman portrait busts to the largest collection of Rodin outside France, plus a room of Gauguin that arrived because Jacobsen's brother married the painter's sister-in-law.
At the centre is a glass-domed winter garden with palms, a fountain and a café, which in a Danish winter is worth the admission on its own.
The detail
Good to know
- Opened
- 1897
- Founder
- Carl Jacobsen of Carlsberg
- Strengths
- Roman portraits, Rodin, Gauguin
- Free
- Last Wednesday of the month
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