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Denmark has two sets of online collections for all its museums.

1. Kunstindeks Danmark

This is a fully searchable database of all artworks in Danish state-owned and state-subsidised museums. It is in Danish and English, and can be searched by artist, artwork or museum and museum collection.

This website is for professionals as well as private individuals who seek information about Danish artists and Danish and foreign artworks in Danish museums.

The site contains Kunstindeks Danmark (Art Index Denmark), which is the central register of artworks and artists in the collections of Danish state-owned and state-subsidised museums. Information from the museums about artists is supplemented by information from the digital version of the Danish art lexicon Weilbach. Dansk Kunstnerleksikon (4. udg.) (Weilbach's Danish lexicon of artists, 4th edition), which is also available on this site.

Source:
https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/Forside.do accessed 23 May 2022


2.  Museernes Samlinger  (Museums' Collections) is the central register of objects and other cultural-historical documentation material in state and state-recognized Danish museums of cultural history. Museernes Samlinger are the cultural-historical counterpart to Kunstindeks Danmark It was established in 2004 with the aim of improving the museums' ability to prioritize their collections and coordinate their research activities.

All museums of cultural history in Denmark are listed on the site and each museun can be individually searched. The website also allows searches by subjects such as nature, people, costumes and homes. It also allows searches by time period.

The museums' own data

If you want to know more about a subject or a museum object, please contact that museum. This also applies if you want to supplement with additional information about a given thing or a particular topic.
"Visit" the individual museums in the Museums Collections Denmark by following the links in the museum overview (museumsoversigten).

Look at the museums over your shoulder

The Museums' Collections is a professional system that has primarily been developed to give the museums themselves an overview of what has already been collected at national level. Like other subject systems, this also contains various expressions and concepts that are not immediately obvious to anyone other than the museums themselves. However, this does not prevent a wider audience from "looking the museums over the shoulders", but to get the full benefit it can be useful to know
  • that museums register their objects, photos, archives, etc. in larger, coherent categories or "collection folders" called museum cases. It can e.g. be 'Maritime from Dragør in the 1800s' or 'Excavation of a desolate church on Oudrup Hede'. A museum case can thus contain many objects, reports, photos, etc. If you are wondering about the meaning and relevance of a given object, there may be help to be found in the information on the museum case.

  • that both museum cases and their content of objects, photos, archives, etc. as a general rule is registered in a cultural-historical classification called "Factual Registrant for Cultural-Historical Museums". One of the entrances to searches in Musernes Samlinger is therefore the subject groups in the factual registrant. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saglig_registrant.
Please note that the Museernes Samlinger site is in Danish only but can be read in English using the Google Chrome browser.

Source:
https://www.kulturarv.dk/mussam/Websted.action accessed 23 May 2022

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