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Wed 2-4pm, Sat & Sun noon-4pm; 20kr. Upstairs from the Royal Stables, the Theatre Museum (Teatermuseet) occupies the former eighteenth-century Court Theatre, a small Italian-style auditorium created by Frederik V out of an old tack room above the stables (the original Christiansborg lacked a theatre, thanks to the pietistic Christian VI, who prohibited theatre performances throughout Denmark). The auditorium remained in use until the fire authorities closed it down in 1881, after a disastrous theatre fire in Vienna that same year. The building was reopened as the Theatre Museum in 1922, displaying original costumes, set-models, and the old dressing rooms and royal boxes from the Court Theatre. Each room follows a theme from Danish theatrical history, and though most are not particularly captivating, the auditorium itself, with its deep stage and beautifully decorated oriental ceiling (painted for a royal masquerade in 1857), evokes a real sense of theatrical excitement. The theatre is best experienced during a live performance - consult the tourist office or www.kulturnaut.dk for information about the plays which are occasionally staged here.
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