The Museum of Copenhagen (

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: Københavns Bymuseum) is the official museum of

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

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, documenting the city's history from the 12th century to the present.

History

The Museum of Copenhagen was founded in 1901. Starting in 1925, the museum had a permanent exhibition in the attic of

Copenhagen City Hall Copenhagen City Hall ( da, Københavns Rådhus) is the headquarters of the Copenhagen City Council as well as the Lord mayor of the Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark. The building is situated on City Hall Square in central Copenhagen. Architect ...

. As the collections grew, the attic became too small and in 1956 the museum moved to the former building of the Royal Copenhagen Shooting Society (''Det Kongelige Kjøbenhavnske Skydeselska'') in Vesterbro. The former shooting range became a public park, still known as Skydebanehaven. The buildings themselves dated to 1787 and were built based upon drawings by architect Johan Henrich Brandemann (1736–1803). In 1984, the museum took over the former Maria Kruuse School in the adjacent Absalongade. It is now used for administration as well as the museum's archives. Part of the street was turned into a museum street featuring historic

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. In 2010, the museum changed its name to the Copenhagen Museum. In 2018, the museum announced a planned relocation to a new location on Stormgade in central Copenhagen.

Today

The Copenhagen Museum is owned and operated by the City of Copenhagen. It now operates in an affiliate with

Thorvaldsen Museum The Thorvaldsen Museum is a single-artist museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, dedicated to the art of Danish Neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived and worked in Rome for most of his life (1796–1838). The museum is locat ...

and

Kunsthallen Nikolaj The Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center ( da, Nikolaj Kunsthal, formerly (from 2006 - 2010) ''Kunsthallen Nikolaj'' and (until 2006) ''Nikolaj Udstillingsbygning'') is an arts centre in Copenhagen which occupies the former St. Nicholas Church ( da, ...

as part of an association of cultural institutions known as Historie & Kunst.

References

External links

Københavns Museum official website

Historie & Kunst official website
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