There was a large collection of Rodin sculptures as well as some bronze sculptures by Degas which were very interesting. But the collections that interested me the most here were the Ancients - especially Egypt and Greece.
I've never really had much time for Egyptian art, I think because it's one of the first things you learn about in art classes at school at an age when it's just not cool to care about some old Pharaohs and what they were doing 3000 years ago. But here, I discovered a new-found appreciation for the way that the Egyptians worked and the influences it has had on Modern art and design. The attention to detail but spare decoration really resonates with the Modernist ideologies of form follows function and showing off materials to their greatest advantage.
The ancient Greek collection I also found to be quite entertaining and funny in parts. I think I may have only been so amused because I was still jet-lagged at the point in time and was by myself at the museum so I had to entertain myself somehow. But I found a young Greek boy with a monobrow:
The foyer of the museum itself is quite spectacular with an indoor garden and apparently a very good and reputable restaurant serving traditional Danish cuisine. I didn't eat here because unfortunately it was a bit pricey for my student budget, but it did smell pretty good. There was also a pretty weird statue in the garden that didn't seem to have any relationship to anything else in the museum, and no explanation as to who did it or what it was all about.
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