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The Glyptotek Brings the Secrets of Art to Life with Sound
The Glyptotek Brings the Secrets of Art to Life with Sound
Art shouldn’t only be seen. Art should be heard, felt and experienced.
The Glyptotek provides visitors with an opportunity to "listen to the museum" and enjoy a closer, more innovative, sensory encounter with its works than they are used to.
The museum is packed with impressive statues and paintings by great artists, and tucked away in all of them are marvellous stories we cannot see with the naked eye.
Using specially-designed audio stories, the Glyptotek releases those hidden stories.
Throughout the Glyptotek, there are 18 different listening stations to whisk you off on sensory trips to ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire and 19th-century Paris.
Learn all about the art, history and architecture of the Glyptotek and get answers to questions you never thought of asking.
There are listening stations for both children and adults. In the children’s listening stations, children will be invited to put on headphones and caress marble, feel the paint on paintings or stroke the bronze from the foundry. Meanwhile, adults will be invited to board Emperor Caligula’s floating palaces, to enter the magical world of hieroglyphs or to join Manet for some peculiar absinthe cocktails.
You can pick up a small guide to the listening stations at the Information.
The soundscapes are created by the podcast pioneers Third Ear and the sound designer Peter Albrechtsen, and the listening stations are designed by Yoke.
The History of the Glyptotek
The Glyptotek has been open to the public since 1897 and holds over 10,000 works primarily divided between ancient antiquities and Danish and French sculpture and painting from the 19th century.
The Architecture
The Glyptotek's unique architecture is rich in details and stories.
The Glyptotek is a unique collage of architectural styles, full of ambience and sensory impressions.
