Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday → 11-17

Thursday → 11-20

Saturday, Sunday → 10-17

Monday → Closed

Tuesday–Friday

11:00–15:00, SEK 100

15:00–16:30, SEK 80

16:30–17, SEK 50

Saturday and Sunday

10:00–15:00, SEK 100

15:00–16:30, SEK 80

16:30–17:00, SEK 50

Tuesday–Sunday

10:00–15:00, SEK 100

15:00–16:30, SEK 80

16:30–17:00, SEK 50

Tuesday–Friday

11:00–15:00, SEK 100

15:00–16:30, SEK 80

16:30–17, SEK 50

Saturday and Sunday

10:00–15:00, SEK 100

15:00–16:30, SEK 80

16:30–17:00, SEK 50

 
Free admission:

Free admission for visitors under 20

Free admission for members of the Friends of Nationalmuseum

Free admission, others: ICOM, ICOMOS, SMI, employees at the Central Museums, the press, personal assistants, authorised guides, tour guides and/together with chauffeurs, Key of Honour - issued by the City of Stockholm, Members of the Royal Acadamy of Fine Arts and teachers with a group of pupils.

The entrance is at the front of the museum, facing the quay.

To the right of the steps there is a lift from the street level up to the entrance. The lift can accommodate wheelchairs, mobility scooters, prams and strollers.

There are handicap parking spots to the right of the entrance steps, next to the lift.

There is limited parking in the vicinity. Please visit the website Stockholm Parkering for more current information.

Bus no. 65 stops right outside the museum. Closest metro station: Kungsträdgården, exit Kungsträdgården and Skärgårdsbåtar. Find out more on the page.

Admittance to the permanent collections is free to all, while an entrance fee is charged for some of the temporary exhibitions. Accompanying persons and personal assistants have free admittance to these as well.

Guide dogs and assistance dogs are welcome.

Lifts that can accommodate wheelchairs and mobility scooters service every floor. The lifts have automatic doors.

All doors in the museum are either propped open or fitted with automatic door openers.

In the entrance hall, you will find a folder with maps of the different floors of the museum. The same maps can also be found on large digital screens in the entrance hall. There is a tactile map in the lobby, to the right just after the steps.

Bags, storage, wardrobe

We will be happy to lend you a wheeled walking frame or wheelchair to make your visit easier. Please ask one of our staff on the ground floor.

You can walk around the museum with a pram or pushchair. If you do not want to bring it into the exhibitions, there is a space to park it outside the children’s exhibition at the entrance level. There is a museum host to give you instructions on where to park. Please note that this space is primarily intended for those visiting the children’s exhibition. If you want to visit the children’s exhibition with small children, there are pushchairs and baby carriers that you can borrow upon presentation of ID. We ask that you do not bring prams and pushchairs that have been used outside into the exhibitions, as they bring in dirt.

Toilets

Changing rooms

There are changing tables in the handicap toilets on each floor.

Did you forget nappies or any other changing supplies? Ask one of our museum hosts, who can help you get what you need.

Visitors with hearing impairments

There are hearing loops in the South Atrium (the auditorium) and in the Sculpture Courtyard.

There are portable hearing loops that you can borrow for guided tours.

For group tours, we ask that you inform us when booking if anyone in the group requires a hearing loop.

Visitors with visual impairments

There is a tactile map in the lobby, to the right just after the steps.

There are hearing loops in the South Atrium (the auditorium) and in the Sculpture Courtyard.

There are portable hearing loops that you can borrow for guided tours.

For group tours, we ask that you inform us when booking if anyone in the group requires a hearing loop.

There is a tactile map in the lobby, to the right just after the steps.

Highlights of masterpieces:  

Nationalmuseum's collections contain paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints ranging from the Renaissance until turn of the century 1900. The collection of applied arts and design spans from late Medieval up until present day. Nationalmuseum administer the National Portrait Gallery, on display at Gripsholm Castle. We also administer the collection of Gustavsberg porcelain.

The Nationalmuseum collections of paintings and sculptures comprise some 16,000 works. Artists such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Renoir, Degas and Gauguin are represented, as are the Swedish artists Carl Larsson, Ernst Josephson, C F Hill and Anders Zorn. The collection includes art from the late Middle Ages up to the beginning of the 20th century, with the emphasis on Swedish 18th and 19th century painting. Dutch painting from the 17th century is also well represented, and the French 18th century collection is regarded as one of the best in the world.

The museum's collection of applied art, design and industrial design spans over a long period, from the 14th century to today. It consists of ca. 30,000 objects of which a third are ceramics and thereafter, in order of numbers, textiles, glass, precious and non-precious metals, furniture, books etc.

Form and artistic value are the basic criteria for museum acquisitions. Pieces from Sweden and the other Nordic countries are given priority, but even other countries are represented, especially those that have been significant for design development.

The collection of Prints and Drawings comprises about 500 000 items from late mediaeval times up to the year 1900. Central to the collections are in excess of 2000 master drawings that Carl Gustaf Tessin acquired during his tour of duty as Sweden's ambassador to France. Of particular importance are collections of works by Rembrandt, Watteau, Edouard Manet, Johan Tobias Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson.

From the beginning the Royal Castles Collections consisted, as appears from the name, of the parts of the art collections of the royal pleasure-palaces which were owned by the State. Today the Royal Castles Collections at the Nationalmuseum administer the majority of the paintings, drawings, engravings, and sculptures existing in five of the royal pleasure-palaces, i.e. Gripsholm, Drottningholm, Strömsholm, Rosersberg and Ulriksdal.The largest collection is the National Portrait Gallery founded in 1822 at the Gripsholm Castle which today includes 5000 works of art. Gradually, the area of responsibility of the Royal Castles Collections has been extended and now comprises 18 palaces, manors and other units.

The Gustavsberg Collection consists of approximately 45 000 objects, manufactured at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory from the 1830’s up until the factory's closing in 1994.

Tuesday-Sunday 10-17

Thursday 10-21

Monday closed

Maundy Thursday: The museum is open 10-17 (normally open until 21:00)

Easter Monday: The museum is open 10-17

Ascension Day: The museum is open 10-17 (normally open until 21:00)

Pentecost Monday: The museum is open 10-17

Constitution Day, June 5th: The museum is open 10-17

Christmas Eve, December 24th: Closed

Christmas Day, December 25th: Closed

Boxing Day, December 26th: Closed

New Year’s Eve, December 31st: The museum is open 10-15

New Year’s Day, January 1st 2023: Closed

General admission: 

Adults: 115 DKK

Under 27/students with a valid Student ID: 85 DKK

Groups of 10 or more (only when paid together): 100 DKK

Under 18: Free admission

Season Ticket: Free admission

Tuesday: Free admission

Special Exhibition Tuesday: 60 DKK

If you are a person with disabilities (carrying disability documentation), entrance to the museum is free – this includes admission to events in the Central Hall. If you are disabled and have a companion card your companion will also be entitled to free admission.

Address

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Dantes Plads 7

1556 København V

It is easy to get to The Glyptotek by bus, train, bike or by foot. The museum is 5-10 minutes walk from Copenhagen Central Station and City Hall Square.

2A, 31, 37. Get off at: Glyptoteket.

All buses to City Hall Square (Rådhuspladsen). 5 minute walk. All buses to Copenhagen Central Station (Hovedbanegården). 5 minute walk. 

All trains (local, s-trains and intercity) to Copenhagen Central Station.

M3: Cityringen. Get off at: City Hall Square or Copenhagen Central Station. 

From the City Hall Square: follow H.C. Andersens Boulevard South East towards Amager and stop at the museum’s front area.

From Copenhagen Central Station: follow Tietgensgade along the back of Tivoli and turn right at Dantes Plads.

You can park your bike at the bike rack by the museum or at H. C. Andersens Boulevard.

We recommend using public transportation when visiting the museum as there are limited parking in the streets close to the museum. A parking garage can be found by both Industriens Hus and BLOX, a mere 5 minutes walk from the Glyptotek.

The Glyptotek is an old building and subject to a listed building which means that the museum is not optimally appointed for, for instance, wheelchair users. Naturally we do what we can to make the museum as accessible as possible for all. There is, accordingly, access to most exhibitions, either by use of a handicap lift or normal lift.

If you are a person with disabilities (carrying disability documentation), entrance to the museum is free – this includes admission to events in the Central Hall. If you are disabled and have a companion card your companion will also be entitled to free admission.

As a wheelchair user/ person with reduced mobility you can access the museum in two ways, depending on which exhibition areas you wish to visit.

If you wish to visit changing special exhibitions in the building by Henning Larsen, The Ancient Mediterranean, the Winter Garden and the Central Hall, please arrive at the side entrance at Tietgensgade 25 during the museum’s opening hours. Here you can ring the doorbell and come into direct contact with the Glyptotek’s personnel. 

If you wish to visit French Art 1800-1870, French art 1870-1925, Danish Art 1780-1930, and The Café Picnic, please use the doorbell by the entrance at the corner of Dantes Plads and Niels Brocks Gade. Here you will have direct access to the Ticket Desk and the Cloakroom in the basement via the lift.

Unfortunately it is not possible for wheelchair users to visit Egypt, Greek and Roman Sculpture and French and Danish Sculpture 1800-1920. This is due to the museum’s current facilities.

Groups of wheelchair users are asked to contact the museum before their visit.

Manual wheelchairs can be borrowed at the museum. These can be delivered to those who require them by the attendants in the Entrance Hall.

Please note that certain areas of the museum can only be visited if you are able to negotiate individual steps unassisted, or with the aid of a companion. Our attendants will do their best to guide.

Accessible toilets are located in the basement by the Cloakroom and Ticket Desk as well as by the entrance to The Henning Larsen Building.

If you are visually impaired, you may, subject to prior arrangement, be allowed to touch selected sculptures.

You are welcome to bring your guide dog with you provided it is kept on a lead.

Glyptoteket’s collection consists primarily of works of art and archaeological objects from Ancient Egypt, the worlds of Ancient Greece and Rome, Etruscan Culture, as well as Danish and French art of the 19th century.

The collection of ancient sculpture includes an extensive collection of Ancient Greek and Roman portrait heads as well as a large collection of Palmyrene portraits. The modern part of the collection includes French sculpture from the 19th century – featuring a significant selection of works by Auguste Rodin – and French painting from 1800 to 1950, with Impressionism and Paul Gauguin* as the absolute stars, plus a collection of Danish Golden Age Art. The greater proportion of the collection forms part of the museum’s permanent exhibitions, though there are, also, temporary special exhibitions.

Greek and Roman Sculpture

Egypt

French Art 1800-1870

French art 1870-1925

Danish Art 1780-1930

French and Danish Sculpture 1800-1920

The Ancient Mediterranean

Opening hours: 

Tuesday – Sunday 10:00 – 18:00

Wednesday 10:00 – 20:00

Monday Closed

18 April (Easter Monday)

6 June (Whit Monday)

17 October (Autumn holiday)

26 December (Second Day of Christmas)

24 December

25 December

31 December

1 January

Wednesday – Friday 11.00 – 15.00

Adults 120 DKK

Under 27 95 DKK

1 adult + 1 child 100 DKK

Groupticket (10+) 110 DKK per person

Parkmuseerne ticket: 245 DKK

Under 18 Free

Annual pass holders Free

It is easy to get to the SMK by bus, train, car or on foot. The museum is 5 minutes on foot from the train/metro, and is just next to Rosenborg Castle.

14, 6A and 150S. Stop: Georg Brandes Plads, Parkmuseerne (Sølvgade)

S-trains and regional trains to Østerport or Nørreport Stations

Nørreport Station and Østerport Station

At Stockholmsgade and Øster Voldgade with parking fee. Sunday free of charge.

You can access the entire museum with a wheelchair. It is possible to borrow a wheelchair at the Museum. You can also borrow a cane at the museum.

Please note: Wheelchairs cannot be reserved.

Handicap toilets are on the lower floor of the Museum in both the new and old buildings.

Persons  who are accompanying handicapped visitors have free entrance to the museum and doesn’t  have to show a membership card of The Invalid Organizations’ Cosumer Service.

Modern art from the 20th century and the very latest contemporary art now fills the exhibition rooms of SMK’s white building, offering a wide-ranging display of the main movements within Danish art. The exhibition includes rooms focusing on major individual figures, on collective movements, and on important works and trends from the international art scene of the period.

The exhibition offers up painting, miniatures, sculptures, drawings and graphical works from the museums collection of older European art. The collection is the eldest in Denmark and has it’s roots in the private collections of the country’s kings.

Paul Gernes, Untitled, 1968-1969

Edvard Weie (1879 – 1943), Faun and Nymph, 1940-41

PISCINE (Mikkeline Daa, Michael Roloff, Jens Settergren, Mark Tholander & Ida Thorhauge), Blue Lagoon, 2016

Max Ernst (1891 – 1976), Two Sexless Figures. Chimerae, 1933

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (f. 1970), Absolute Exotic, 2005

Rasmus Myrup, Re-member Me, 2019

Kirsten Justesen (f. 1943), The Class Struggle, 1976-2009

Emil Nolde (1867 – 1956), Young Women, 1947

Abraham Bloemaert, Venus and Adonis, 1632

Pieter Aertsen (1507/1508-75), The Fat Kitchen. An Allegory, 1565-1575

Andrea Mantegna (1430/31-1506), Christ as the Suffering Redeemer, 1495-1500

Salvator Rosa (1615-73), Democritus in Meditation, 1650-51

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Trompe l’oeil. The Reverse of a Framed Painting, 1668-1672