National Museum Copenhagen

The museum is Denmark’s largest museum of cultural history and Experiences 14,000 years of Danish art and prehistory, from the reindeer-hunters of the Ice Age to the voyages of the Vikings. The exhibition includes unique archaeological treasures like the Trundholm Chariot of the Sun, the Egtved girl’s grave, the Gundestrup cauldron, the Hoby tomb. The collection also includes luxury objects such as the worlds´s largest colletion of aquamaniles – metal vessels used for washing hands, usually in the shape of animals, preferably lions or people on horseback. Among the unique exhibits are the “golden altars” and the Dagmar Cross. The museum has a huge collection of drinking horns that were mainly used by craft guilds in the towns. The collection also reflects the incipient cultural, technical and scientific revolution associated with the Renaissance. The mdeal collection presents coins from ancient Rome and Greece, Viking and medieval age, as well as examples of the coinage and currencies of other cultures. The museum further keeps Denmark’s largest and most varied collection of objects from the ancient cultures of Greece and Italy, the Near East and Egypt.

Museum: National Museum Copenhagen
City: Copenhagen
Country: Denmark
Address: Frederiksholms Kanal 12