Museum Garden

New Museum Garden for the Danish National Gallery
The Danish National Gallery has long wanted a new garden in front of the museum. With a generous donation from the Annie & Otto Johs. Detlefs Foundation, in cooperation with the Municipality of Copenhagen (owner of the garden), it is now possible to make a new garden for the National Gallery. The development of the garden has now been handed over to the municipality, since the area is their property.

The garden is currently limited by a Baroque inspired design from 1919 that features a tight network of paths, roses, shrubbery hedges and rows of trees facing the street. The garden closes, instead of opening up, to the surrounding streets of Sølvgade and Østre Voldgade creating a lack of space for activities and movement within the garden

With its 7500m2, the garden is the size of Copenhagen’s City Hall Square and has enormous potential.

The vision for the garden is an open and welcoming entrance to the museum with excellent opportunities for breaks and social gatherings. The garden will be a place where there are various activities for a diversity of users. Whether you are a family with children, student, dog walker or tourist, the garden will feel like a haven.

The vision for the museum garden is to be:

- Open and accommodating
- Spacious with room for diversity
- A social meeting place
- A green garden
- Accessible to all users
- Sustainable

The museum garden is a preserved landscape and the development of the new garden is in compliance with the constraints and opportunities provided by the preservation order. The Municipality of Copenhagen is the owner of the garden and will, from time of discovery of a winning project, oversee the project and ensure preservation.

Museum Quarter
The museum garden will also contribute to an increased focus on the museums near the parks in the area of Rosenborg Castle, The David Collection, the Copenhagen Filmhouse, the Natural History Museum of Denmark, The Hirschsprung Collection and the Danish National Gallery. The museums' proximity and association with green parks is an important feature of this part of Copenhagen, and increased cooperation between institutions is desired to improve people's experience with the city and make cultural life richer.

Stakeholder dialogue
The Danish National Gallery asks museum visitors, residents in the neighbourhood and city residents to give their time to help the museum by contributing input and ideas for the garden's future functions and features.

Stakeholder dialogue and workshop
We therefore invite you to stakeholder dialogue and workshop on 23rd of February, 2011 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the museum. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
More info on the workshop here.

Dialogue Cart
Moreover, a dialogue cart will be on the sidewalk in front of the entrance to the museum garden on Georg Brandes Plads (crosses Sølvgade / Østre Voldgade) the 23 February from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. At the cart, sheets will be distributed with questions for the future museum garden.