Fuglsang Art Museum

Fuglsang was a manor whose owners were patrons of Danish artists and composers around 1900, hosting Carl Nielsen among others, and the collection that grew from that association is now housed in a museum opened in 2008 beside the old manor, designed by the British architect Tony Fretton in pale grey brick, a plain rectangular block with tall windows framing the flat Lolland farmland outside. The collection covers Danish art from about 1780 to the present, with strong holdings of the Golden Age, the Funen painters, and artists connected with Lolland-Falster, hung in daylit rooms. The building has been widely praised for the way it handles light and for the deliberate restraint of putting a plain box in an agricultural landscape.

What you actually see

• Tony Fretton's pale brick gallery - a plain block in flat farmland.
• Danish art from 1780 onward - Golden Age through to the present.
• Windows framing the fields - the landscape used as part of the hang.
• The manor and grounds - the estate the collection came from.

When to go

Year round. Two hours. Closed Mondays. Daylight matters, so a bright day shows the galleries as designed. Concerts are held in the manor, continuing its musical tradition.

Honest expectations

It is remote and hard to reach without a car. The collection is regional and largely Danish, so foreign visitors may not recognise much. It is small and two hours covers it fully. The cafe has limited hours.

Nearby

Nykobing Falster is east; the Maribo lakes lie west on Lolland.