Exhibition and museum reviews

摘要

Where is the new Danish Maritime Museum? When visitors come to Elsinore near the renaissance castle Kronborg, they cannot see any spectacular, oddly-angled, glass, modernist building - no big signs, no flags; there is no museum in view. The Maritime Museum has, since its establishment in 1915, been in the castle made famous as the setting of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. However, in 2000, the castle at the entrance to the Sound became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a new museum was built on the disused Elsinore Shipyard site in the Port of Elsinore. The 'invisible' museum was built underground in order not to spoil the view of the castle. Even signage is prohibited, so visitors can only enter the museum after a little searching to find the path down into what was previously a dry dock. The museum was designed by the architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group, which is known for large buildings in Copenhagen, Manhattan, and Tianjin (China) and which, from 2016, will be renovating the Smithsonian museums in Washington DC.