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Winter holiday at Designmuseum Danmark
During the winter holiday, there are plenty of reasons to bring the family to Designmuseum Danmark when Danish design history meets children’s creative curiosity in a programme that invites you to look, touch and participate.
The museum presents four current exhibitions that together offer new perspectives on design and craftsmanship: Japan Modern Poster, Japanese Woodblock Prints: Hokusai, Laboratorium: Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen and Belongings: Affection as a Design Strategy. In the family workshop, things get seriously fun. Children are introduced to linocut printing at eye level, experimenting with classic design techniques and leaving with their own poster to take home.
When energy runs low, help is close by. In the museum café, younger visitors can refuel with an inviting children’s menu, and freshly baked fastelavnsboller are available for everyone who believes that a winter holiday should also include something sweet. The buns can be purchased every day leading up to Fastelavn.
Japanese design
During the winter holiday, visitors can immerse themselves in Japanese design at Designmuseum Danmark. The exhibition Japan Modern Poster presents more than 100 striking posters, offering an overview of Japanese graphic design from the post-war period to today.
At the same time, the museum presents a smaller exhibition featuring rarely shown woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), regarded as one of the most influential figures in Japanese art history.
Inside the design process
At the beginning of the year, the museum opened a new exhibition in the Laboratorium series, granting visitors access to the designers’ creative engine room. The exhibition focuses on the award-winning design studio Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen and offers rare insight into the design process behind selected furniture pieces – from initial ideas to final outcomes.
In connection with the opening, the studio received the Danish Design Council’s Honorary Award 2026.
Creative play at children’s height
Throughout the winter holiday, the museum’s family workshop is open to children and adults eager to unleash their imagination. Here, participants can carve their own motifs and work with linocut printing, creating colourful posters to take home. Hands get messy, ideas run free, and everyone is encouraged to experiment.
Fastelavn during the winter holiday
During the winter holiday, Designmuseum Danmark invites families to celebrate Fastelavn in the museum’s historic, listed garden. Children and adults can take turns hitting the barrel, dress up in imaginative costumes, and experience classic Fastelavn traditions in beautiful surroundings.
It is a celebration where courage and precision are rewarded. Perhaps your child will be crowned Cat King or Cat Queen, and where everyone can play, laugh and create winter holiday memories together. Participation is free, but tickets are limited and tend to sell out quickly.
Communal dining in the museum’s café
On Thursday 12 February, Designmuseum Danmark’s café and garden invite guests to a communal dinner in one of Frederiksstaden’s most beautiful green spaces. The menu features a vegetarian take on the Danish classic brændende kærlighed, served with a beetroot slaw, with chocolate mousse available as an optional dessert.
Here, the table becomes more than just a place to eat: it is a space for meeting, sharing flavours and perhaps striking up a conversation with your neighbour. Danish classics are reimagined in a green guise, served on large shared platters that invite everyone to taste and enjoy together.
Bring Danish design home with you
No winter holiday at Designmuseum Danmark is complete without a visit to the museum shop. At the shop, you will find everything from beautifully designed posters and books to unique small gifts and handcrafted products that cannot be found elsewhere.
Fastelavnsboller
We are back with our much loved fastelavnsboller (Danish carnival buns): soft, lightly sweetened buns filled with silky cream and fresh blackcurrants. Inspired by the Italian maritozzo, the buns are balanced in flavour and easy to enjoy by hand, perfect while wandering through the museum or taking part in Fastelavn festivities in the garden.