Kunstindustrimuseet

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Lonely Planet review

There is a cluster of sights along the upmarket street known as Bredgade, home to many of the city's top antique dealers and auction houses. Kunstindustrimuseet, north towards Kastellet, is based in the former Frederiks Hospital. This large, rambling museum boasts an extraordinary, if eclectic, collection of nearly 300,000 items from Asia and Europe, dating from the Middle Ages.

The displays include a fairly extensive collection of Danish silver and porcelain and lots of coverage of innovations in contemporary Danish design. One exhibit, for example, shows Denmark's contribution to chair design, displaying chairs by influential 20th-century designers Kaare Klint, Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen. There's a café on site.