The Danish National Gallery Statens Museum for Kunst (State Museum of Art) is the largest museum of fine arts in Denmark and is located in the center of the capital Copenhagen.

The museum, designed by architect Vilhelm Dahlerup (1836-1907), was opened in 1897. In 1998, the main building was ingeniously extended by the architect Anna Maria Indrio (* 1943).

Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, The Fall of the Titans, 1588-1590

Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, The Fall of the Titans, 1588-1590 © SMK

In addition to changing temporary exhibitions, there is also a comprehensive collection consisting of three main collections:
The Royal Painting and Sculpture Collection, which comprises around 2600 works from 1300 to the present day. One focus of the collection is on Danish and Nordic art from 1750 to 1900, including numerous works of art from the Golden Age of Danish painting by painters such as Wilhelm Bendz, Detlev Conrad Blunck, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Constantin Hansen, Christen Købke, Vilhelm Marstrand and Martinus Rørbye as well as Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, who worked in Denmark for a time. The collection also includes works by Titian and Mantegna, Rubens and Rembrandt and Cornelis Gijsbrechts as well as Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde and Robert Smithson. But modern contemporary works by the Danes Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Elmgreen and Dragset and Danh Vō are also included.

Elisabeth Jericho Baumann, An Egyptian potter near Giza, 1876-1878

Elisabeth Jericho Baumann, An Egyptian potter near Giza, 1876-1878

The Royal Collection of Engravings comprises 300,000 works (drawings, lithographs, etchings and other art forms on paper) by Danish and international artists.
The plaster cast collection (Den Kongelige Afstøbningssamling) comprises over 2,000 plaster casts and has been housed in a historic packing house (Vestindisk Pakhus, Toldbodgade 40) since 1984. The works on display date back to Ancient Egypt. For reasons of economy, the cast collection is only open on Tuesdays and Sunday afternoons.

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