Look to your left for a stately red brick townhouse with strictly ordered white-framed windows and an elegant double doorway. Check your screen for a wider look at the exterior. Supreme Court lawyer Christian Ludvig David owned this building. He filled it with fine art, and then, rather generously, turned his home into a public foundation in nineteen forty-five. The doors opened in nineteen forty-eight. Upon his death in nineteen sixty, David left his entire fortune to the museum. Today, the David Collection houses eighteenth-century European art arranged as original nineteenth-century room interiors, plus Danish works featuring eleven paintings by Vilhelm Hammershøi. However, the true marvel is the Islamic art collection. Spanning from Spain to India across the eighth to the nineteenth centuries, it is the largest of its kind in Scandinavia and ranks in the top ten worldwide. As part of the Parkmuseerne network, you can visit Tuesday through Sunday from ten A-M to five P-M, and until nine P-M on Wednesdays. It is a quiet powerhouse of global history hiding behind a polite facade. Whenever you are ready, we will head to our next destination.
