Copenhagen : Day 3

After a free buffet breakfast (and making some sandwiches to take with us for lunch) we were off on "Museum Day".  On our list of places to see were the Statens Museum and the Louisiana Museum.  Both were supposed to have some great modern art.







We started out at the Statens Museum.  It was a really big building!  We were a little early, so we had time to fool around with the panoramic setting on my mom's camera.

This museum had a lot of artwork by famous artists.  I was most excited to see this one:

Extra credit if you can name the artist.

Did you get it right?  Click here to find out who it is.

This reminded me of some artwork the third graders did at the end of the year last year.

I was also excited to see a real painting by one of my most favorite artists.  Can you guess who it is?  Click here to see if you're right.

His portraits are a little abstract- the third graders also created self-portraits in the style of this artist at the beginning of the year. 









There was also a really cool installation exhibit at this museum.  There were lots of different types of balls- most of them inflatable, hanging in a giant foyer.

 

After spending an hour or so at the Statens Museum, we hopped on the train for a 30 minute ride up the coast of Denmark.  We ended up in the town of Humlebæk to visit the Louisiana Museum.  The museum was AWESOME!  It was a really cool building (architecturally) and had a view out in the gardens across the sea to Sweden.  In the gardens there were lots of Alexander Calder sculptures.  I had a good time standing next to them for some photos... 

 And even trying to be a sculpture:

The Louisiana Museum had an incredible Anselm Kiefer exhibition, but we weren't allowed to take pictures :(

After a few hours in the museum we were ready to head back to Copenhagen.  We ate our tasty sandwiches from breakfast on the train.

After a short break at the hotel (and some picture taking)

We went on a walk to see the residence of the royal family.

They had some guards walking around.  They were hard to catch standing still for a picture!

We'd had a busy day, so we walked back to Nyhavn for dinner along the canal.  After an excellent pizza at a cute Italian Restaurant (Danish dinners seemed too fishy), we took a stroll on one of the pedestrian walking streets, then headed back to our hotel for our last night in Copenhagen.

Nyhavn