DANISH CULTURAL LIFE
DANISH CULTURAL LIFE
Art and museums
Mov i e s Cinema tickets can be a bit expensive (normally between 60 or 70 DKK), but in some cinemas, they have special discounts, for instance if you go early. The tickets can be bought either at the cinema itself, by telephone or online where many of the bigger cinemas can be found at www.kino.dk. In the summer there are free outdoor movies on different locations in the bigger cities of Denmark. It is called ZULU SOMMERBIO and it’s a great chance to gather your friends, your picnic gear and watch some of the year’s most popular movies in open air – for free. Check out www.zulu.tv2.dk for more info. CO PEN H AG EN There’s a wide range of different cinemas in the capital. CINEMATEKET in Gothersgade 55 is the place for film enthusiasts. Here they show old movies and focus on different actors, genres and periods in film history. Once a month they show a good Danish movie with
English subtitles, check out the dates at their webpage www.cinemateket.dk. Every other Thursday, there’s a FREE UNDERGROUND CINEMA AT LYGTEN STATION, a former train station next to Nørrebro Station. Check out www. filmstationen.net. Å R H US CINEMA X X in M.P. Bruunsgade 25 shows all the big movies while Øst for Paradis in Paradisgade 7, a small place in an old-fashioned style, has a lot of different experimental and foreign movies. O D ENSE The small cosy place, CAFÉBIOGR AFEN in Brandts Passage 39 shows the latest movies but also short movies and different foreign movies. It is a nice place to eat as well. Å L BO RG Check out the art cinema BIFFEN at the old factory building Nordkraft, Kjellerup Torv 5.
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at Vesterbro close to the Central Station is the place to go. It hosts several modern art galleries and workshops, such as V1, www.v1gallery. com, DASK, www.daskgallery.com and ARTREBELS, www.artrebels.com.
CO PEN H AG EN The entrance is free at NATIONALMUSEET, Frederiksholm Kanal 12, www.natmus.dk. It’s mostly historical and etnographic collections. At Denmark’s biggest art museum STATENS MUSEUM FOR KUNST, Sølvgade 48, www.smk.dk, the majority of the exibitions are also free. It hosts both contemporary and classic art.
For info regarding the small private galleries and their current exhibitions, check out www.kopenhagen.dk. Å R H US The most well-known art institution of Århus is AROS, a huge contemporary art museum with Danish and international artists, www.aros.dk. DEN GAMLE BY (the old town), www. dengamleby.dk gives a good insight in how the town looked years ago.
At most museums the entrance is free on Wednesdays, important exceptions being NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK, Dantes Plads 7, www. glyptoteket.dk, which is free on Sundays and KØBENHAVNS BYMUSEUM, Absalonsgade 3, www.bymuseum.dk, which is free on Fridays and shows the history of Copenhagen. LOUISIANA, www.louisiana.dk, in Humlebæk north of Copenhagen is worth visiting as well, though it’s a bit expensive, but it’s beautifully located beside the sea and calls for a picnic. For contemporary art in general, the former meatpacking district located
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O D ENSE BR ANDTS KL ÆDEFABRIK i Brandts Passage, www.brandts.dk, is a big complex with different art, photo and media exhibitions. They have permanent exhibitions and thematic exhibitions. The world famous writer Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense. If you want to learn more about the author of The little Mermaid and