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Mikkel Bogh blogger | 10. aug. 2016

Online presence: Why museums matter more than ever

By Mikkel Bogh, director of the SMK, and Merete Sanderhoff, Curator and Senior Advisor in Digital Museum Practice at the SMK.Recently, several commentators have quite justifiably pointed out that art …

Behind | 4. may. 2016

A change of view

Local knowledge and thorough guidance has given us valuable new documentation about one of the gems among our Dutch master paintings. Read about how our visitors help us learn about our collections.

The finished book cradles at the exhibition Flowers and World Views.
Behind | 11. apr. 2013

Cradling the florilegia

Couriers have brought rare books of flower paintings to the SMK in padded boxes, and they supervise the books being placed in book cradles.

The spine of one of the volumes from Gottorfer Codex.
Behind | 23. may. 2013

Giving the book a ‘flu shot

When Duke Frederick III entertained guests at Gottorf Castle in Northern Germany in the mid-17th century he was only too pleased to show them his magnificent garden. Its vast expanses were home to a …

Behind | 8. mar. 2013

Treating the Lords-and-Ladies

I have pulled on my soft cotton gloves in order to seize hold of a fold in the piece of parchment bearing a painting of the plant lords-and-ladies, also known as wild arum. Arum maculatum is the …

Albert Küchler (1803 - 1886), A Girl Selling Fruit in an Artist's Studio. 1828
News about the art | 4. feb. 2013

Contextualizing portaits of artists at work

The artist in his workspace became a popular motif among students of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts during the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s.

We are looking at parchment together with Jiri Vnoucek.
Behind | 8. mar. 2013

The flower is painted on the back of a five-week old calf

The calf cannot have been more than six weeks old when its hide was taken. It might even have been younger, depending on the usual size of the particular race. After all, back then cattle were …

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