Copenhagen Explores the City as a Green Ecosystem
The museum garden continues further up the street, where a telephone box from 1896 on Absalonsgade has been transformed into a greenhouse full of plants. The greenhouse has been developed by the urban farmer Signe Voltelen, and during the summer will be looked after by local schools and day-care centres.
The back garden of the museum is the creation of the Chicago artist Barbara Cooper. She designed the garden after spending two months in Copenhagen, during which she studied the city’s gardens, archaeological finds at the museum, and the cultivated landscape surrounding it – from farming land, to recreational areas and military complexes. The garden, which she has called Intersections, is a sculpture representing the meeting between nature and culture and negotiations between the two. All the gardening has been done by the landscape gardener Anders Matthiessen Aps.
Events To accompany the exhibition and new gardens, the museum is hosting guided tours, city walks, and a whole program of events throughout 2014. Keeping a strong Museum of Copenhagen tradition alive, there are free summer city walks, and every weekend there are free guided tours of the museum’s exhibitions and gardens. You can also follow the special children’s urban nature trail through the exhibitions.
Urban Nature is part of Sharing Copenhagen, Copenhagen Green Capital 2014.
Urban Nature is supported by The Adolf Andersen Grant, The Beckett Foundation, The Hartmann Brothers Foundation, CPH Air, The Culture and Leisure Department of Copenhagen City Council, The Danish Agency for Culture, LEGOTM, and The Danish Arts Foundation.
Want to know more?
Contact our communications officer Pernille Dehn on +45 51 42 92 55 or cc2i@kff.kk.dk for press photos and more information on the exhibitions and gardens.
