The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is one of the best museums in Copenhagen. It takes 40 minutes by train from the downtown. It is in a quiet and elegant residential area.
See Henry Moore's sculpture in the garden on the hill and the Öresund Strait beyond it. Sweden is seen on the opposite side.
The collection of modern and contemporary art is splendid, but the charm of this museum is the cluster plan that the site is dotted with buildings. The owner who purchased the site from the former owner opened the historic mansion as a museum, then added new buildings little by little. That is the model case of process planning that added a building, observed the situation after its completion, and decided on the next building.
In that way, the separated small exhibition hall buildings are scattered throughout the large site, connecting by corridors and walking paths. The design of each building is different. Some buildings are excellent, and some are ordinary, but the diversity is nice.
In addition, it looks like a museum composed of a row of various houses. It blends into the environment, reducing the landscape burden on the surrounding residential area.
The buildings are skillfully embedded in the landscape through process planning. That is, according to the change of the lay of the cliff facing the sea, the floor level changes, and the interior and exterior switch. To appreciate art is to pass through the forest, look at the pond, view the sea from the lawn on the hill, and walk through the garden, that is, experience the richness of the landscape of this place.
I will not get bored even if I stay here for a whole day because it is full of comfort not found in closed art museums in the city.
The museum name derives from that of the historic mansion. The mansion was named after the first owner's three wives with the same name Louise. The reason why the museum founder followed it must be because he paid homage to the history of this place. However, I am curious about the predilection of the first owner.
Both the gate of the museum and the entrance building behind it are built on a small scale and blend into the landscape of the surrounding residential area.See the square at the entrance of the museum. Perhaps it was for the exhibition of Yayoi Kusama that several "pumpkins" were on display. Even so, the surface was pretty dark.See the north wing, which was built in 1958, and Calder's sculpture placed in the garden on the hill in front of it.See Henry Moore's sculpture standing in an open area at the depth of the garden and the Öresund Strait beyond it.From the right, see the original mansion with white exterior walls, the entrance + shop wing, and the glass corridor connecting the east wing over the garden. Sculpture of Henry Moore is placed in the foreground.See the south wing beyond the forest.See the garden side entrance of the south wing. Below the walking path is an underground exhibition space that connects the south wing and the east wing.See the underground exhibition space that connects the south and east buildings that pass under the garden.Dubuffet's work in the garden can be seen from the north wing, which was built at the time of its opening in 1958.See the sculpture by Jean Arp from the corridor connecting the north wing and the entrance wing.See Giacometti Hall in the north wing, which was built in 1958. It opens onto the landscape of a pond and displays works by Giacometti.See the exhibition room for the collection of Danish representative artist Asger Jörn in the north wing. I didn't know him, but he was an artist who influenced punk culture. His work was good, but the exhibition room was too plain for his style.See the artwork by Donald Judd. The old exhibition room was finished with white-painted brick walls and a wooden ceiling. As for Judd's delicate artwork, the texture of the exhibition room looked strong, and the lighting fixtures were large and close, giving a iffy feeling.A series of exhibition rooms with unexpectedly high ceilings in the south wing, which opened in 1982, have a usual atmosphere compared with other wings. The Yayoi Kusama exhibition was just held. Part of the south wing houses Yayoi Kusama's permanent installation.See the display of "Kusama Yayoi Exhibition".See the shop in the entrance wing. By building the extended part of the shop under the garden, the view of the Öresund Strait can be seen in the distance beyond the garden from the first floor.See the Öresund Strait from the rest area in the south wing.On the other side of the sea beyond the cliff is a pond surrounded with rich nature.
