Exhibition Policy

The National Museum of Denmark is committed to housing temporary exhibitions, with the objective of furthering the understanding of cultural-historical themes and issues.

• The Director of The National Museum of Denmark has the overall responsibility for the museum’s exhibition policy. Decisions concerning large exhibitions in, for example, Egmont Hall are taken by the museum executive.
• The National Museum of Denmark does not run exhibitions that have a commercial purpose.
• The National Museum of Denmark does not run exhibitions that have been shown elsewhere in Denmark.
• The National Museum of Denmark does not accept exhibitions containing items about which there is legitimate suspicion of theft or illegal export, or items that are in any way incompatible with adopted conventions, including the 1970 UNESCO Convention.

Proposals for temporary exhibitions are processed individually, taking the following basic conditions into consideration:

• Is the proposed theme relevant to The National Museum of Denmark?
• Does the proposed theme have the potential for interaction with one or more of the museum’s collections?
• Does the proposed theme supplement the research and scholarship of the museum’s collections?
• Has The National Museum of Denmark already shown/agreed to show an exhibition on a related theme?
• Can the proposed theme be accommodated within the museum’s general exhibition strategy?
• Is the exhibition theme particularly topical?
• Does the exhibition appeal to specific categories of visitors to the museum?
• Does the exhibition fit in with the museum’s exhibition calendar?
• Are financial resources available to mount the exhibition?
• Does the scale of the exhibition require supplementary financial resources via fundraising?