Refined oasis for art of the ancient world
Founded by 19th century industrial magnate and art patron Carl Jacobsen, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is a public museum in the heart of Copenhagen that is home to more than 10,000 works from ancient to modern times. The museum's singular, elegant design features four buildings built by leading Danish architects at different times between 1897 and 2006, including the famed Winter Garden, with its mosaics floors, towering palm trees and wrought-iron dome. The museum is home to Scandinavia's largest collection of antiquities, with impressive holdings from Etruria, Greece and Rome, together with mummies and tomb discoveries from ancient Egypt. The Glyptotek is also noted for Denmark's largest collection of French 19th-century and impressionist art, including works by Manet, Monet, Degas, Sisley and van Gogh, Cezanne and Rodin; Danish Golden Age paintings; and an impressive trove of ancient sculptures.
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