We had a look at the Copenhagen design museum whilst there earlier this week. It's an interesting place, I particularly like the collection of chairs, sounds boring I know, but the shear number of different ways that you can put a chair together boggles the mind! There are some more "abstract" exhibits though, I snapped the picture above to show just one of them, I'm not entirely sure what this is supposed to be but, it's certainly a collection of butts. Then there was the one below, a collection of clowns hanging upside down by their feet, again, not sure of the artistic intent here but it certainly catches your attention!
There were of course more conventional pieces of art in the city, for example at the Christiansborg Palace which is the official residence of the King of Denmark (see below) Some lovely tapestries, this one for example depicts the battle of Copenhagen, fought in 1807 during the Napoleonic wars between the English and the Danes.
At the time we were worried that the large Danish fleet would end up in French hands so we (rather aggressively) sent a fleet to Copenhagen to persuade the residents to hand over their ships! When they didn't we bombarded the city, causing significant carnage, until they did! The action was roundly condemned by most European powers at the time and the Danes subsequently allied themselves to the French! Luckily the Danes are a forgiving bunch, English seems to be the official second language there now a days so they don't seem to hold a grudge about the whole thing anymore.
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