Azerbaijan National Museum of Arts to cooperate with museums of Denmark

Head of the International Relations and Innovation Department of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Arts Amina Melikova with the support of MAERSK company has visited Denmark. Melikova held a number of meetings in Denmark with her colleagues.

The Azerbaijani side invited curator of "Louisiana" Museum, Anders Could to visit Baku and hold a three-day seminar on theme "Museums today: the key to success." The seminar will focus on innovative museum projects of the 21st century and will include several discussions and workshops with participation of professional museum staff of Azerbaijan and Denmark. There are more than 200 museums in ??Denmark with 60 only in the capital, Copenhagen.

The National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet) in Copenhagen is Denmark’s largest museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures, alike. The museum's main domicile is located a short distance from Str?get at the center of Copenhagen. It contains exhibits from around the world, from Greenland to South America. Additionally, the museum sponsors SILA - The Greenland Research Centre at the National Museum of Denmark to further archaeological and anthropological research in Greenland. The museum has a number of national commitments, particularly within the following key areas: archaeology, ethnology, numismatics, ethnography, natural science, conservation, communication, building antiquarian activities in connection with the churches of Denmark as well as the handling of the Danef? (the National Treasures). The museum covers 14,000 years of Danish history, from the reindeer-hunters of the Ice Age, Vikings and works of art created in praise of God in the Middle Ages, when the church played a huge role in Danish life. Danish coins from Viking times to the present and coins from ancient Rome and Greece, as well as examples of the coinage and currencies of other cultures are exhibited also. Furthermore the National Museum keeps Denmark’s largest and most varied collection of objects from the ancient cultures of Greece and Italy, the Near East and Egypt. For example, it holds a collection of objects that were retrieved during the Danish excavation of Tell Shemshara in Iraq in 1957. In addition to this, there are exhibits about who the Danish people are and were, stories of everyday life and special occasions, stories of the Danish state and nation, but most of all stories of different people’s lives in Denmark from 1560 to 2000. The Danish pre-history section was re-opened in May 2008 after years of renovating.


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