The Winter Garden
Palms and a fountain under a glass dome.
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The Glyptotek is Copenhagen's most beautiful museum as a building before its collection: gifted to the city by Carl Jacobsen of the Carlsberg brewery (1897) — its heart the Winter Garden: a glass dome sheltering palms, a fountain and a café among the statues, Denmark's tropical refuge in January. The collection around the garden is two world-class halves: antiquity — the largest collection of Roman sculpture and imperial portrait heads outside Italy, plus ancient Egypt and the Etruscans — and French art — Rodin in his largest collection outside France, Gauguin (who married a Dane and lived in Copenhagen) in forty works, Degas' bronze dancers complete, and the Impressionists. Its roof is a terrace over Tivoli and the city's spires — and its Tuesday is free: the city's museum day. The National Museum's natural pair across the street: a morning for Vikings, an afternoon for Romans and palms.
Palms and a fountain under a glass dome.
Rome's faces beyond Italy.
Forty works by the Dane's husband.
Dantes Plads 7, 1556 Copenhagen
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