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Guided tours
Get closer to the exhibitions and the museum with a guided tour. Read more about which different guided tours we offers below
Contact us at booking@designmuseum.dk to book or get more infomration about our guided tours. You can also call us on tel. 40 99 88 33. Telephone is open Monday-Thursday at 10 am -12 pm.
Free guided tour
Every Sunday at 4 pm you can join a free guided tour that focuses on Danish and international design and crafts. Through selected objects and stories, the tour provides a general introduction to the museum’s eight exhibitions. The tour lasts one hour and starts in the entrance hall.
The capacity is 20 people and registration is distributed on a first come, first served basis. Please note, that it is not possible to prebook in advance.
Likewise a guided tour in Danish starts at 2 pm every Sunday in the entrance hall.
GUIDED TOUR: In introduction to the museum and its exhibitions
Through 12 selected stops, the museum guide will guide you through seven of the museum’s eight exhibitions. The introduction will give a look into the exhibitions: THE FUTURE IS PRESENT, AKUT, Powerful Patterns, Wonder, Danish silver, LITTLE TABLE, COVER THYSELF! and IN THE MAKING. The tour is intended as a preview of the museum’s large and diverse collections.
Duration: 1 hour
There can be max. 20 people on a guided tour.
Price:
DKK 1000 when the entrance ticket is redeemed
Special price for annual ticket holders: DKK 850.
GUIDED TOUR: THE MAGIC OF FORM
The exhibition, The Magic of Form, was created in collaboration with the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Through design, art and crafts, the exhibition focuses on the kinship between the arts and how they have influenced each other. The tour creates a chronological narrative of Danish design from around 1900 to the present day, while also providing thematic insights.
Duration: 1 hour
There can be max. be 20 people on a guided tour.
Price:
DKK 1000 when the entrance ticket is redeemed
Special price for annual ticket holders: DKK 850.
GUIDED TOUR: The FUTURE IS PRESENT
What kind of future do we want? Through the three themes HUMAN, SOCIETY and PLANET+, the tour presents different scenarios, installations, and design ideas for the future from designers, architects, craftsmen and other creatives and professionals. Some are speculative, others are questioning but all invite reflection. Which values are the most important for the future of design, where not only designers – but everyone’s choices and actions help to shape the future.
Duration: 1 hour
There can be max. be 20 people on a guided tour.
Price:
DKK 1000 when the entrance ticket is redeemed
Special price for annual ticket holders: DKK 850.
GUIDED TOUR: Powerful Patterns
The main story of the exhibition “Powerful Patterns” is patterns as they unfold on textiles, both fabrics for clothing and accessories, as well as the flat textiles, fabric panels and smaller samples. All textile patterns are chosen across time, place, and cultures – and all are from the Design Museum’s collections. The exhibition’s universe has been created in collaboration with artist, fashion designer and musician Henrik Vibskov. The tour offers the opportunity to delve into the art forms and compositions of the patterns.
Duration: 1 hour
There can be max. be 20 people on a guided tour.
Price:
DKK 1000 when the entrance ticket is redeemed
Special price for annual ticket holders: DKK 850.
GUIDED TOUR: Wonder
The exhibition Wonder focuses on collectors and collections. That collections can be both wonderful and a source of wonder. And the fact that we have, or have had, a collector hidden inside us. Through five exhibition rooms, five different stories are told about collections and the collectors who can still be glimpsed behind the collections. The tour focuses on the founding of the museum in 1890 and offers an opportunity to get close to the history of collecting and the very oldest objects in the museum.
Duration: 1 hour
There can be max. be 20 people on a guided tour.
Price:
DKK 1000 when the entrance ticket is redeemed
Special price for annual ticket holders: DKK 850.
GUIDED TOUR: LITTLE TABLE, COVER THYSELF!
Little Table, Cover Thyself! shows objects from the history of table setting from the Renaissance to the present day, displayed on 7 original tables. We delve into the details and stories of craftsmanship, design processes, customs, and usage as we look at over 200 objects in silver, gold, glass, porcelain, and wood.
Duration: 1 hour
There can be max. be 20 people on a guided tour.
Price:
DKK 1000 when the entrance ticket is redeemed
Special price for annual ticket holders: DKK 850.
WANT TO KNOW EVEN MORE?
Arrange a guided tour with one of the museum’s curators. Each of the museum’s exhibitions has been created by a curator who, in collaboration with the exhibition designers, has set the scene for the objects and their stories. A guided tour with a curator allows you to delve even deeper into the subject matter of the exhibition, while getting even closer to the choices and exclusions that an exhibition represents.
Duration: 1 hour
There can be max. be 20 people on a guided tour.
Price: DKK 4000 when the entrance ticket is redeemed
This tour requires booking through: bookning@designmuseum.dk