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Copenhageners and tourists will get access to a new, welcoming, and recreational plaza when audience magnet Designmuseum Danmark expands to become an outdoor meeting place for everyone who loves design. The current low-visibility area in front of the museum’s beautiful building from the 1700s in Bredgade, Copenhagen will be improved significantly so it is a more appealing place to spend time outdoors.
Special exhibition with rarely-seen masterworks from the museum’s new and established collections. On view from 26 April 2018 to 27 January 2019.
Designmuseum Danmark has received one of the finest prizes in the international museum world, the DASA award, in recognition of the museum’s new strategy to make the museum experience more public-friendly.
This year, you can meet and study 40 creative proposals and solutions at the Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition 2017, which returns to the beautiful garden space Grønnegården at Designmuseum Danmark.
From August 25th 2017 until January 21st 2018, the audience gets the chance to come close to the masterpiece Paimio Sanatorium when Designmuseum Danmark opens a spot show about Alvar Aalto's revolutionary hospital.
An exhibition that brings you close to the danish fashion designer Erik Mortensen and his work for the haute couture houses Pierre Balmain and Jean-Louis Scherrer in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The museum collaborates with the danish Red Cross School, Skolen på Bakken, on a project aimed at teaching asylum seeking kids. The two partners believe that they can create a cross-cultural dialogue through design processes and a focus everyday objects. (press release in Danish only - contact for information in English).
Designmuseum Danmark is ready to switch on your senses in the exhibition, UNFOLDS. The exhibition presents 25 unique works created by some of the country’s most skilled cabinetmakers, all of who have
used the cube as their frame of reference.
Permanent exhibition focussing on contemporary danish design from the 21st century.
The Danish Chair is a wunderkammer of chairs. In the exhibition, Designmuseum Danmark tells the story of how Danish design turned into an international mega-brand.
The exhibition presents the Museum’s impressive Japanese collection alongside Japanese-inspired Danish arts and crafts, design, architecture and graphics.