Skagens Museum
Museum of the Skagen painters at the northern tip of Jutland, holding more than 1,800 works.
The museum was founded in 1908 in the dining room of Brøndums Hotel, where the artists who gathered in this fishing town at the northern tip of Jutland had covered the panelling with portraits of one another. A purpose-built museum designed by Ulrik Plesner, himself connected with the Skagen circle, opened nearby on 22 September 1928, and the painted dining room was later moved into it. Friis & Moltke added roughly 2,000 square metres of new galleries in 2014.
The collection numbers more than 1,800 works by the painters who worked at Skagen from the 1870s onwards, among them Anna and Michael Ancher, P.S. and Marie Krøyer, Laurits Tuxen, Viggo Johansen and Holger Drachmann. Hangings follow the subjects that drew the artists north: beaches and dunes, fishermen at work, gardens and lamplit interiors. The same organisation also runs Anchers Hus and Drachmanns Hus, two preserved artists' homes in the town, and an artists' residency programme.
Highlights
- More than 1,800 works by the Skagen painters
- Brøndums Hotel dining room with portraits of the artists
- Galleries of 1928 by Ulrik Plesner, extended in 2014
- Anchers Hus and Drachmanns Hus run by the same museum
