Editing Copenhagen (section)

===Museums===
{{See also|List of museums in and around Copenhagen}}

Copenhagen has a wide array of museums of international standing. The [[National Museum of Denmark|National Museum]], {{Lang|da|Nationalmuseet}}, is Denmark's largest museum of [[archaeology]] and [[cultural history]], comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures alike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://natmus.dk/en/the-national-museum-of-denmark/|title=Nationalmuseet: National Museum of Denmark|publisher=Nationalmuseet|access-date=21 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113132033/http://natmus.dk/en/the-national-museum-of-denmark/|archive-date=13 November 2013}}</ref> Denmark's [[Statens Museum for Kunst|National Gallery]] ({{Lang|da|Statens Museum for Kunst}}) is the national art museum with collections dating from the 12th century to the present. In addition to Danish painters, artists represented in the collections include [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]], [[Rembrandt]], [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], [[Georges Braque|Braque]], [[Fernand Léger|Léger]], [[Henri Matisse|Matisse]], [[Emil Nolde]], [[Olafur Eliasson]], [[Elmgreen & Dragset]], [[Superflex]], and [[Jens Haaning]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smk.dk/en/about-smk/who-are-we/|title=Who are we?|publisher=SMK|access-date=21 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030140041/http://www.smk.dk/en/about-smk/who-are-we/|archive-date=30 October 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Main entrance, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.jpg|thumb|left|Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum]]
Another important Copenhagen art museum is the [[Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek]] founded by second generation [[Carlsberg Group|Carlsberg]] philanthropist [[Carl Jacobsen]] and built around his personal collections. Its main focus is classical [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]], [[Roman Empire|Roman]] and [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] sculptures and antiquities and a collection of [[Auguste Rodin|Rodin]] sculptures, the largest outside France. Besides its sculpture collections, the museum also holds a comprehensive collection of paintings of [[impressionism|Impressionist]] and [[Post-Impressionism|Post-Impressionist]] painters such as [[Claude Monet|Monet]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]], [[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]], [[Vincent van Gogh|van Gogh]] and [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Toulouse-Lautrec]] as well as works by the Danish [[Golden Age]] painters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aok.dk/udstilling/ny-carlsberg-glyptotek|title=Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek|publisher=AOK|access-date=21 November 2013|language=da|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202131423/http://www.aok.dk/udstilling/ny-carlsberg-glyptotek|archive-date=2 December 2013}}</ref>

[[Louisiana Museum of Modern Art|Louisiana]] is a [[Museum of Modern Art]] situated on the coast just north of Copenhagen. It is located in the middle of a sculpture garden on a cliff overlooking [[Øresund]]. Its collection of over 3,000 items includes works by [[Picasso]], [[Alberto Giacometti|Giacometti]] and [[Dubuffet]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisiana.dk/dk/Service+Menu+Right/English|title=Louisiana|publisher=Louisiana|access-date=21 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203021717/http://www.louisiana.dk/dk/Service%2BMenu%2BRight/English|archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> The [[Danish Museum of Art & Design|Danish Design Museum]] is housed in the 18th-century former [[Frederiks Hospital]] and displays [[Danish design]] as well as international design and crafts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://designmuseum.dk/en|title=Design Museum|publisher=Design Museum Danmark|access-date=21 November 2013|archive-date=16 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116031227/http://designmuseum.dk/en|url-status=live}}</ref>

Other museums include: the [[Thorvaldsens Museum]], dedicated to the [[Work of art|oeuvre]] of romantic Danish sculptor [[Bertel Thorvaldsen]] who lived and worked in Rome;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/themuseum/themuseum|title=Thorvaldsens Museum|publisher=Thorvaldsens Museum|access-date=21 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212063134/http://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/themuseum/themuseum|archive-date=12 December 2013}}</ref> the [[Cisternerne]] museum, an exhibition space for contemporary art, located in former [[cistern]]s that come complete with [[stalactite]]s formed by the changing water levels;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitdenmark.com/denmark/cisternerne--museum-of-modern-glass-art-gdk414124|title=Cisternerne -Museum of Modern Glass Art|publisher=Visit Denmark|access-date=21 November 2013|archive-date=13 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213224626/http://www.visitdenmark.com/denmark/cisternerne--museum-of-modern-glass-art-gdk414124|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Ordrupgaard]] Museum, located just north of Copenhagen, which features 19th-century French and Danish art and is noted for its works by [[Paul Gauguin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ordrupgaard.dk/topics/collection-and-architecture.aspx|title=Collection and Architecture|publisher=Ordrupgaard|access-date=21 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212073433/http://www.ordrupgaard.dk/topics/collection-and-architecture.aspx|archive-date=12 December 2013}}</ref>