iFounded by Carlsberg brewer Carl Jacobsen and opened in 1897, the Glyptotek houses one of northern Europe's great collections of ancient sculpture, from Egypt and the Near East to Greece, Etruria, Rome and Palmyra. Its French and Danish holdings include Rodin, Degas's bronzes, Impressionist paintings and one of the world's finest Gauguin collections. The building by Vilhelm Dahlerup and Hack Kampmann centres on a domed winter garden with palm trees and a rooftop terrace overlooking Tivoli.

The Glyptotek's world-class Gauguin collection in dialogue with Yuki Kihara's video, where Samoan and Tahitian voices respond to his paintings.

Tigers, lions and elephants in 34 small bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye, 'the Michelangelo of the Menagerie', mixing drama with anatomical precision.

The Glyptotek's largest-ever antiquity show: how Romans used clothing, jewellery and perfume to signal identity, status and power, read through marble and bronze.

The heart of Carl Jacobsen's collection: Greek originals and a celebrated gallery of Roman portrait busts of emperors and citizens.

New permanent galleries for the Glyptotek's large collection of Palmyrene funerary portraits from the Syrian desert city that linked Rome, Persia and Asia.

Impressionism and after: Manet, Morisot, Monet, Renoir, van Gogh and Gauguin in the Glyptotek's modern French galleries.

Sculpture, mummies and coffins spanning three millennia of ancient Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period.

A broad selection of the Glyptotek's Danish Golden Age and later painting and sculpture, from Købke to Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann.
Dantes Plads 7, 1556 København V, Denmark
Nearest station: København H (Copenhagen Central Station) and Rådhuspladsen (Metro M3/M4)
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