Copenhagen Explores the City as a Green Ecosystem
Copenhagen explores the city as a green ecosystem-New exhibition
Under the title Urban Nature, The Museum of Copenhagen zooms in on the role of nature in Copenhagen’s past and present through two brand new exhibitions and two new museum gardens. With an entire programme of events, free city walks, guided tours and educational activities, the museum aims to make an active contribution to debates on how we can use nature in the city.
“Today more than ever, we need to learn how to use nature without destroying it, something that can’t happen as long as we keep thinking of nature and culture as opposites. With Urban Nature, The Museum of Copenhagen wants to contribute to the understanding of the city as a large ecosystem, and to our shared respect for the diversity, vulnerability and power of nature. With its new exhibitions and gardens, the museum explores the significance of strengthening, protecting and integrating nature in city development, life and identity, and emphasizes the importance of each individual city dweller’s personal and pleasurable interaction with urban nature,” says museum director Jette Sandahl.
Urban nature exhibitions, gardens and events
Copenhagen is full of parks, green backyards and city gardens that we all use in different ways to relax and grow things, or as building blocks in city infrastructure. All of this is in focus in the exhibition Urban Nature, which takes visitors through the past and present of the city. The exhibition gathers exhibits from the museum’s collections, and presents images and stories from Copenhagen alongside examples from other cities in the world.
