Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

 I really love a good museum.  Especially when they contain "old" things.  Luckily, Denmark is filled with museums, stuffed full of "old" things.  I love living so close to all these places, that I can go back to them over and over again, and see what I missed the time before.  Anyway, we made it to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.  Which literally means the New Carlsberg Carving Storage place.  The glyptotek was built to house the collections of Carl Jacobsen, the son of the founder of Carlsberg breweries.  I love going inside these massive buildings and being overwhelmed by the enormity of it all.  Pictures can't even show how large and grand some of these places are.  Wings upon wings of exhibits, huge staircases leading up to even more exhibits, so much to see!  The glyptotek, as it's name implies (carving storage place), houses mainly sculptures.  Although I believe they do have a nice collection of paintings, but we didn't make it there this time.  It's hard to really examine these museums with 3 kids.  They are good sports and enjoy looking at some of the stuff, but really, their favorite thing was to watch the fish in the fountain and to see how loud they could get their voices to echo in some of the huge rooms.  Overall, it was a fun outing and I look forward to going back again.

This is a 17th century Mummy.  We thought the painting bore a bit of a resemblance to Sylvester Stallone.

 Kind of a cool story, 100+ years ago, when they would put statues on display, they would make replacement noses, ears, hands, etc, for the pieces on the statues that were missing.  Then, it was decided that it was better to display them in the form that they were found, so they went through and removed all the extra noses, ears, etc.  This display, above is of noses and ears that were removed off of statues. 

Lexi taking a chapstick break.

I thought this guy's head looked like an Alien!

The middle of the museum houses a Winter Garden, complete with blooming flowers and we even saw a lemon tree!

The Thinker, a small version.  Outside of the building, there is a full-size version.

 This statue is titled the Burghers of Calais.  It's a french sculpture and only 14 versions exist in the entire world!  I recognized it because we have this picture:

 - Chad sitting in front of The Burghers of Calais statue that sits in a park next to the Parliament building in London England, that we took 4 years ago.  Kind of cool!

Myra arguing with a statue.

One of 2 Medusa statues.  The kids stood and stared at it forever.  They were quite captivated!

If you haven't noticed, from previous blog posts, the kids love imitating different statues that we come across.  Why they picked this one to imitate, I do not know.

Lexi imitating another statue.  Pretty good, eh?