Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark – National Gallery of Denmark

The National Gallery of Denmark is Denmark’s premier museum of art.

Through:

• Accessibility, education, and exhibition

• Conservation

• Research

The Gallery is tasked with elucidating Danish and foreign art, primarily art from Western culture dating from the 14th century onwards.

The National Gallery of Denmark wishes to be an indispensable source of knowledge for art from Denmark and abroad in Denmark by taking an innovative approach to the museum function. The National Gallery of Denmark wishes to combine gravitas with a lightness of touch by giving the classics a contemporary edge, by making the visit to the Gallery an event where you get a fresh outlook in every sense of the term.

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Four Paintings Magnified

Through a period of two years an international research team has studied four almost identical paintings from the 16th century. The four paintings examined are alike yet different variations on a theme – Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple and were made with different purposes, answering to the demands of a booming 16th-century Antwerp art market.

Stereo Microscopy

Apr 23, 2012

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Restoration in an Open Workshop

For more than a year from August 2007 through October 2008 museum visitors of the Statens Museum for Kunst, the Danish National Gallery in Copenhagen, were able to experience an open conservation studio in the exhibition area. The reason for bringing the conservators and all their equipment into the exhibition rooms of the museum was the conservation, restoration and technical research of Jacob Jordaens’ (1593 – 1678) early masterpiece “The Tribute Money. Peter Finding the Silver Coin in the Mouth of the Fish”, also known as “The Ferry Boat to Antwerp”.

Conservation

Dec 15, 2009

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