Designmuseum Danmark

If you are interested in design history, you can’t lose this place! The museum is located in an ancient hospital palace and the inner court is very beatiful to visit. The exhibition is divided into historical periods and themes. There is an interior design area where you can find all of kind of eccentric chairs. My favorite area is dedicated to fashion. At the end you can find an area about the oriental design which has influenced a lot the danish.

The museum itself was just ok, the little café was the cutest part. If you have the Copenhagen Pass I would check it out, but would never pay to come in because it was pretty boring. Also you can’t take in your purse or bag and you have to have coins to use a locker.

Disappointing museum. So small and expected so much more on mid century/​modern designs. Cute café to rest and shop is ok.

This a great museum! If you are a tourist and on your way out to see the Little Mermaid, stop by and take it all in. You need about an hour in here, this place is bigger than it seems. There’s furniture from many different eras as well as Danish clothing throughout the last few centuries on display. Very interesting and free for students. The gift shop is great as well, featuring books and Danish design objects that will look lovely in your home.

Stunning. Probably my favorite Museum in CPH. It’s a museum like no other, because let’s face it design is huge in this country and do you ever get showered with design and innovation to the nth degree! The displays are flush with thought intense simplicity, the first thing you think about is, there are so many chairs, so many items. We easily forget that we see these designs everyday. Well, this is where it began or flourished. Super Cool, Super Innovative back then. I was so into this museum I stayed almost half a day instead of the original 2 hours I had planned and I’m not a design professional; nor am I an artist. It is a mind-​bending museum if you have an appreciation for Art and invention. Sure there are lots of chairs but there are lots and lots of other invention and a significant display of Danish design history here as well. There’s also a section for costume design (interesting but not my thing).
One less star. This museum should be re-​organized and arranged in a logical fashion and some of its pieces protected in temperature controlled spaces. I think the plethora of chairs (albeit beautiful) in the early part of the display can be re-​arranged. The museum needs to expand to a much larger space and the captions redone so that they are easier to read. Some captions were newspaper print and you’d have to kneel/​squint if you’re standing up while looking down. Yep it’s that packed, there are displays at floor-​level.
Visits: 1
Tip: The café has very good real food and coffee and a beautiful courtyard. Use your Copenhagen Card to get into this and any of the many museums all over the city. It’s a great deal for free museums, metro, transportation including tours for a 24, 48, 36, 72 hours depending on the time block you purchase.

Im Design sind die Dänen ja immer schon wegweisend gewesen. Man denke nur an die Oper in Sydney. Nicht ganz so groß, aber nicht weniger beeindruckend sind die Ausstellungsstücke in diesem Museum.
Überwiegend — aber nicht nur — erlebt man hier eine Geschichtsreise durch das Möbeldesign. Unglaublich fantasievolle Exponate gibt es zu beschauen: Tische, Stühle, Sessel, Sofas aller Art, aber auch viele Wohnaccessoires. Das meiste darf man nicht anfassen, aber überall stehen dann doch Designstücke zum Ausprobieren: einige nur schön, einige gar bequem und auch welche, die schön und bequem sind. Gestaunt habe ich über die Sessel aus Wellpappe, auf die Idee muss man erst mal kommen. Und dann sind die auch noch total stabil, sprich wirklich nutzbar.
Im kleinen Museums-​Café kann man sich erfrischen, wenn das Wetter mitspielt gar im kleinen Innenhof-​Garten sitzen. Bei unserem Besuch im Frühjahr 2014 war ein Teil des Museums wegen Renovierungsarbeiten nicht zugänglich.
Auch wer sonst Museen nicht allzusehr mag — hier lohnt der Besuch, nicht nur als Fluchtort bei Regenwetter. Es ist überschaubar groß, hat einen Bezug zum realen Leben, ist kurzweilig. Und seinen Eintrittspreis wert.

There’s nothing evil about this place but if you are not a hard-​core design enthusiast, you will probably be bored. Tons of information (too much) on the history of Danish chair design and not enough about the interplay between culture and design that comes through a bit at the end. It felt like homework for art school rather than an interesting museum (the medical museum next door is more interesting for a general audience).

Pros:
— Free with student ID
— Free locker area
— Opens at 11AM on Wed
Cons:
— Some parts of the building are under renovation — some exhibitions are cut off
— Mainly focuses on chairs — not the best museum to visit if you want to see anything else

If you love Danish furniture design, you’re much better walking from store to store than coming here. If you like history and chairs that you can’t sit in, come here.
4 stars for this is stupid. Almost as stupid as we felt after being there for 30 minutes. Yes, few things are in English, but design is design and I don’t need to know the history of a chair made out of newspaper.
Plus there’s a lot of things in there that weren’t Danish. Design, sure, but whatever. It’s kind of cool, but not at all what I expected from a Danish Designmuseum
If you love true (current) Danish design, walk a few blocks south. Go window shopping on Kongens Nytorv. Go to Urban Living or other stores on Frederiksborggade. Just don’t waste your money and time here.

Why does this place have 4 stars? Super disappointed. Was expecting typograpohy, graphic design, interior design, and etc by Danish designers. False.
I found parts of the museum poorly curated and the selection of design abysmal. To top it off, it half of it contains Asian and Europeans goods (I don’t understand…).
Half the museum is dedicated to Asian and European goods. There is a portion of porcelain that is closed until May 2014. There are a million wooden chairs. Cool, but where is the captioning? Where does it talk about and explain the philosophy that dictated the design or the choice in material? There is a small blurb in each room that is written in a way that is not particularly informative or memorable.
Leading Danish designers (like legendary Arne Jacobsen) are each featured in a small room with no more than approx. 6 chairs and variable baubles and accessories. The iconic egg chair made by Jacobsen wasn’t even there. WTF.
Kay Bojesen had a few of his creations there, but NOTHING was written about him (wtf).
Also, a good portion of the giftshop does not include famous Danish design, and even features items directly from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
tl;dr: Calling this a Design Museum is like a cat fancying itself a lion. Poorly curated, poorly selected pieces, not enough written information (even less English). Items include chairs and random posters, textile designs, and random items from Asia and Europe. I would not go again if it’s not free.

Chairs after Chairs after Chairs.
We had a group tour at the Designmuseum with a very informed art student as our guide. It was fairly interesting to learn about the culture and history of certain parts of Denmark, but it was mainly based on chairs that you can’t sit on! Boy, was I tired after the tour because we just stare at chairs that entice you.
Danish Design is definitely fascinating and intricate because of the simplicity, which is common in many Scandinavian furniture (Ikea from Sweden, anyone?)
But, personally … I would not go back to visit Designmuseum again unless they bring in more interesting pieces.

Continuity lacking between exhibitions, but individually interesting.

Der Name verspricht hier meiner Meinung nach mehr als er liefert.
Es waren zwar viele verschiedene Designstücke zu sehen, aber bei vielen Sachen dachte ich eher, dass es sich um Prototypen vor der Massenfertigung von vor zig Jahren handelt.
Zudem gibt es viele Stühle, Hocker etc., wobei ich mich dann wie bei Ikea gefühlt habe.
Da das Museum für Studenten kostenlos ist, kann ich am Preis-​Leistungs-​Verhältnis jedoch nichts bemängelnö

Ein supertolles Museum, wenn man auf Design steht!
Absolut sehenswert und den Eintritt von DKK 70 /​Person auf jeden Fall wert.
Eine Reise durch die Zeit und fast alles Aspekte des Designs präsentierend, ist es wirklich sehr beeindruckend hier. Am besten schaut Euch meine zahlreichen Fotos an, dann bekommt ihr den besten Eindruck…
Viel Spaß dabei! Euer iMatze.

Nice exhibition and lovely building.
Spend some money and get a nice lunch by the beautiful garden under the sun. That’s WHEN It’s sunny in Copenhagen ;)

After a great walk through Churchill park and the fortress Kastellet, and seeing the over hyped Little Mermaid, we wandered upon the Design Museum. Now it was a recommendation of a friend to see it but we didn’t realize it was so close to where we were. The place is much larger than it lets on and there’s a superb courtyard in the middle that you don’t even get to walk into. Various elements of Danish design and homages to others like Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao museum throughout the years. The furniture stands out to me as some of the items I’d like to own the most. The Rococo clothing however didn’t do anything for me. I’ve always appreciated the Scandinavian aesthetic and the Danish one displayed here reinforced that.