Skagens Museum

Skagens Museum is an art museum in Skagen, Denmark, which exhibits an extensive collection of works by members of the colony of Skagen Painters who lived and worked in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Important artists include Maria and P. S. Krøyer, Anna and Michael Ancher, Laurits Tuxen, Viggo Johansen and Holger Drachmann. The museum also hosts special exhibitions. Facilities also include a café located in the Garden House, an old building which for a while served as home residence and studio of Anna and Michael Ancher.

History

Skagens Museum was founded on 20 October 1908 in the dining room at Brøndums Hotel. Among the founders were artists Michael Ancher, P.S. Krøyer and Laurits Tuxen, who were elected to form the first board of governors together with Victor Christian Klæbel, the local pharmacist, and Degn Brøndum, proprietor of Brøndums Hotel and Anna Ancher's brother. The idea was to collect works by the Skagen Painters and to raise funds for the construction of a building for their exhibition. It was also decided that the Brøndums Hotel's dining room should, in due time, by transferred to the new museum once it had been built. It had served as an important venue for the members of the artist colony ever since its formation in the 1870s.

The first exhibitions were arranged in the local technical school. After P.S. Krøyer’s death in 1909, his house in Skagen Plantation was used as a temporary venue for the museum.

In 1919, Degn Brøndum donated the old garden of his hotel for the construction of a purpose-built museum. The architect Ulrik Plesner was charged with its design. He was an active member of the artistic community in Skagen and had already designed a number of buildings in the area. The building was financed by a combination of private donors and foundations with Dan Brøndum, Laurits Tuxen and the Ny Carlsberg Foundation as the largest contributors. Construction started in 1926 and the new museum was officially opened on 22 September 1928.

In 1982, the exhibition rooms were extended with an annex designed by the Royal Surveyor, architect Jacob Blegvad. Blegvad also planned the later extension to the museum that was inaugurated in 1989.

In 1997, the museum administration moved into the Technical School.

Collections and special exhibitions

Today Skagens Museum has more than 1,800 works of art at its disposal. All important members of the artist colony are represented in the collections with central works, including Maria and P. S. Krøyer, Anna and Michael Ancher, Laurits Tuxen, Viggo Johansen and Holger Drachmann.

The museum also hosts special exhibitions. All members of the arti

Brøndum's dining room

The dining room of Brøndums Hotel as it appears today was designed by Ulrik Plesner and Thorvald Bindesbøll in connection with the first major expansion of the hotel in 1892. Instegated by P. S. Krøyer, it was decided to incorporate Degn Brøndum's art collection in its decoration. Over the years it had become a custom that visiting artists donated portraits of each other to the hotel owner and these were placed in a frieze just under the ceiling. The dining room also feature the furniture which Maria krøyer designed for it in 1898.

Today the dining room is also used for wedding ceremonies.

Garden and Garden House

The museum garden features some of the museum's sculptures.

The Garden House is one of the oldest buildings in Skagen and received its name when it was incorporated into what was then the hotel garden. In 1853 it was used as a cholera lazaretto.

In 1880, after their wedding, Michael and Anna Ancher took up residency in the building. They used the eastern end as a studio with natural light from a large new window still present in the gable. Their daughter Helga Ancher was born in the house in 1883. The following year the family moved to a new house on Markvej, now known as the Michael and Anna Ancher House, but Michael Ancher continued to use the Garden House as a studio. Later it was used as a summer residence for artists.

After the Brøndum family donated the garden house to Skagens Museum in 1919, they hosted various exhibitions and eatablished memorial rooms dedicated to P. S. Krøer and Holger Drachman. From 1989 ti 1997, the house served as an administration building. Since 2009, it has been a café.

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Alex Brrbl
5 January 2019
Very nice museum with art of danish artists. The staff was super friendly and explained a lot when we asked about the history of the museum.
snelu
21 October 2013
Enjoy your time. One of the best places to be in nordjylland. No german guide, but texts in english.
Gloverboy
3 June 2013
Amazing carrot cake in the courtyard after enjoying the art completes your visit.
Lena Bjørkli
30 July 2013
Try the cakes in the nice cafe in the backyard , they tasted like heaven :-)
Anna Grebenshchikova
15 June 2017
I have enjoyed fabulous paintings by Danish painters ???? comfortable and cozy interior
Ewen McPhee
27 August 2016
Lots of arts, many styles, always something to please
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