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The collections from the middle ages to 1800: daily 1pm-4pm. Rest of the collection: Tues-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat & Sun noon-4pm; 35kr. Bus #1, #6, #9, #19, #29 or Osterport S-Tog. The Danish Museum of Decorative Art (Kunstindustrimuseet) traces the development of European - and particularly Danish - design, as well as examining the influence of Eastern styles on Western design through a notable collection of Oriental furniture, ceramics and other exhibits. Most of the museum is used for displaying items from the permanent collection, which covers the period from the middle ages to 1800. One wing (on the right as you enter) is kept for later pieces, and temporary exhibits focusing on Danish design. Note that these two parts of the collection have slightly different opening hours.
The museum's excellent cafe, serving good-value Mediterranean-style food, is a nice place for lunch.
Oriental exhibits include a collection of early Japanese porcelains and sword-hilt decorations ( tsuba s), along with some Chinese Ming vases, all displaying styles from which Europeans were to derive later designs. Early examples of styles borrowed from the East are shown through decorative work on Baroque furniture and the earliest glazed European porcelain from Meissen, Germany, while a section devoted to British design displays copies of Chinese lacquerware, Chippendale furniture and a toiletry set given to the unfortunate Princess Caroline Mathilde. The next part of the collection focuses on early Danish porcelain production in the district of Amager (Royal Copenhagen still make porcelain today in Frederiksberg - and it's possible to purchase exact copies of eighteenth-century pieces from their shop). On a slightly more offbeat note are the ceramic pieces produced by Gauguin - who was married to a Dane - including a unique ceramic self-portrait. The last part of the collection houses a disappointing assortment of twentieth-century furniture and design featuring the chairs of Wegner and other more abstract pieces - this section is scheduled for renovation
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