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Tues & Thurs-Sun 10am-5pm, Wed 10am-8pm; 40kr (combined ticket for permanent and temporary exhibitions, 50kr); www.smk.dk . Bus #10, #14, #40, #42, #43, #72E, #79E, #150S, #173E, #184, #185 or Osterport S-Tog. Situated in the southern corner of Ostre Anlaeg park is the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Statens Museum for Kunst) - not the most outstanding of Copenhagen's galleries, but worth a visit if you have the time. The museum's wide-ranging exhibits are housed in two contrasting wings: the older Dahlerup Building, a gloomy affair containing classical works ranging from Tintoretto through to the Danish Golden Age, and the bright and airy new wing, devoted to contemporary works and a stimulating children's museum. Ascending the main stairs from the entrance hall of the Dahlerup Building leads to an enormous collection of works from all over Europe from the beginning of the fourteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, including rooms devoted variously to the almost photographic images of the Dutch and Flemish masters, Italian religious paintings (including a number of Tintorettos), and a smattering of lesser-known Breughels, Rembrandts and Van Dycks. The new wing , accessible via the ground floor or by two footbridges from the Dahlerup Building, is an impressive architectural pile spread over five floors. Its light and spacious design makes an excellent home for an extensive, if rather lightweight, collection of contemporary art - you may feel it's the building rather than the paintings that grabs your attention. There's also an excellent children's museum on the ground floor, with stimulating temporary exhibits drawn from the permanent collection, thoughtfully hung at a lower, child-friendly height, and paper and paint for kids to create their own works of art with. The main body of the collection, on the second and third floors, highlights most major movements of the twentieth century. The second floor has a large sample of Danish and international work - the colourful post-surrealist abstractions of the Cobra movement (made up of mid-twentieth-century artists from CO penhagen, BR ussels and A msterdam - hence the name) are particularly well represented. Elsewhere, look for the enormous, quirky photographic self-portrait by Gilbert & George and, in an adjacent room, Dane Oyvid Nygaard's impressive The Light Conductor sculpture, reminiscent of the Silver Surfer. The rest of the second floor holds a largely uninspiring cache of works by contemporary German artists and a small collection of Danish and US sculpture. The third floor features an important collection of modernist works, including a small selection of the Danish artist Asger Jorn's dramatic canvases, examples of works from twentieth-century movements such as Surrealism and Expressionism, and works by Picasso and Matisse - look out for the latter's The Green Line , in which a severe-looking Madame Matisse is unceremoniously bisected into contrasting halves by a noticeable green line.
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