Ordrupgaard Museum

Wilhelm Hansen made a fortune in insurance and between 1916 and 1918 bought French art at speed and with a good eye, and although he had to sell much of it in a banking crash he kept and rebuilt a collection that came to the state in 1953. It is one of the better French nineteenth-century collections in northern Europe: Corot, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Pissarro, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin and Matisse, hung in the family's own house alongside a strong Danish holding from the Golden Age to the twentieth century. Zaha Hadid added a curving black concrete extension in 2005, and in the garden stands Finn Juhl's own house, preserved with his furniture, along with an underground gallery opened in 2021 and a sculpture park.

What you actually see

• French nineteenth-century painting - Manet, Degas, Monet, Cezanne and Gauguin.
• Zaha Hadid's extension - a curved black concrete wing of 2005.
• Finn Juhl's house - the designer's own home kept as he furnished it.
• The park and sculpture garden - grounds running down toward the forest.

When to go

April to October for the garden and Finn Juhl's house, which has limited winter opening. Two to three hours. Closed Mondays. Combine with Dyrehaven, the deer park, which is next door.

Honest expectations

It is out of the city and the last stretch is by bus or a long walk. Finn Juhl's house has separate limited opening hours and small group sizes. Parts of the collection travel, so key paintings may be away. The cafe is expensive.

Nearby

Jaegersborg Dyrehave is next door; Charlottenlund and the coast are east.