Trapholt

Why it is renowned

Wikivoyage's guide to Kolding names the Trapholt art museum among the reasons visitors come to the town, beside the royal castle of Koldinghus.¹ Its furniture wing holds more than 500 chairs of the 20th century, the largest such collection in Denmark.² In the grounds stands Kubeflex, the modular summer house Arne Jacobsen designed in 1969–70; it never went into production, and it is furnished with his own designs.³ In 2000 Marco Evaristti's installation Helena, ten working blenders each holding a live goldfish, brought the museum to the notice of the international press; in 2003 the BBC reported the Danish court ruling that followed.²⁴

The story

Trapholt opened in 1988 on a slope over Kolding Fjord, in a sculpture park with works by Danish artists such as Ingvar Cronhammar and Bjørn Nørgaard.⁵² The architects Boje Lundgaard and Bente Aude arranged the galleries along a central museum street, with a long sculptural wall between the museum and the park.²⁵ A wing for the furniture collection followed in 1996, its spiral plan taken from the Guggenheim Museum.² A room of Richard Mortensen's paintings was made with the painter himself.⁵ The Jacobsen family used Kubeflex on a beach in south Zealand until 2002, and it came to Trapholt in 2005.³

What to know it by

• Kubeflex³1970Arne JacobsenModular summer house, the only one built
• The chair collection²1996More than 500 chairs of the 20th century
• Richard Mortensen room⁵Richard MortensenPaintings hung with the artist
• Sculpture park⁵Danish sculpture above Kolding Fjord