Designmuseum Danmark

About 10 minutes (on foot) south of the Little Mermaid statue, you can find a shrine to quality Nordic design known as the Designmuseum Danmark, the Danish Museum of Art & Design. The variety of themes covered, range from furniture to decorative objects, ceramics and chinaware, in a wide but minimal in their display set of collections that can leave no design lover uninspired.

The Design Museum of Denmark was established in 1890 with a main goal to communicate the idea of quality within design. Since 1926, Designmuseum has been housed in one of Copenhagen’s finest rococo buildings, the former Royal Frederik’s Hospital constructed during the reign of King Frederik V in the years 1752-57.

By exhibiting exemplary objects and collections, it seeks to raise the level of Danish industrial products and act as a source of inspiration for people working in industry. It also aims at making contemporary consumers more critical and quality-oriented. The museum collects and documents all developments within industrial design, furniture design, and handicrafts.

The display of exemplary works from older periods that closely reflect contemporary production acts as an educative database for designers and consumers alike. Most importantly the Museum hosts a series of temporary exhibitions by well known or breakthrough designers and artists that can be a lure on their own accord. In the Museum’s shop of selected items and illustrious books you can find everything concerning the exhibitions. In the elegant Klint cafe good design meets tasty food. More