Louisiana Museum of Art

Of course, I had to ask why a museum of modern art in Denmark is named Louisiana. The answer is of course because the original owner of the land had three wives all named....Louise. Seriously, how does that happen?

The Louisiana Museum of Art is two train stops south of Helsingor and sits on the same channel as Kronborg Slot. The buildings, are connected by glass corridors and link up to form a large circular shape. I didn't realize that one underground corridor brought me to a part of the museum that I had been to earlier. That surprise was in and of itself worth a visit to the museum. I'm usually pretty skeptical of modern art, but the exhibition they had during my visit was engaging. I laughed a number of times and that was matched by the instances where I just went, "well, damn!"

Here's one of the glass corridors that connects the buildings.

Looking across the from one end of the museum to the other. The channel that separates Denmark from Sweden is to the right.

Literally, this was the first piece of art I saw.

Open up and it's......a fully functioning bathroom. I got a feeling that I was going to enjoy my visit.

So an artist stripped a prototype hydrogen car built by BMW and stripped it of it's outer shell. Then he replaced the it with "ice" racing stripes. To see it, you have to go into a "refrigerator".

The steering wheel.

This artist turned 1,000 microphones and attached them as one large "cloud" or microphones, turning what usually amplifies one voice for many to become the speaker itself.

This artist took a number of people and subjected them to something that made them fearful. He then took the essence of their sweat and managed to turn that smell into a scratch and sniff wall. Seriously, people's fear sweat smells different from person to person, I had my nose to the wall.

Another exhibit was one of a Danish photographer who had spent time traveling throughout the United States (mostly in the south and midwest) taking photos of obese people, poverty, KKK members, blacks, all the underbelly of American life. The exhibit was PACKED with Danes. They were enthralled, obviously it was new to them. For me, yawn. I was more into the people watching.

The Louisiana Museum itself is known for its environmentally sensitive architecture. Another exhibit was about the future of green cities. Here we have the model of a completely planned city somewhere in the Middle East. I was too tired at this point to be "educated" so I glossed over this part of the museum.

This piece is made of self-necrosing material.

The museum did have its share of this kind of art which I usually am indifferent to, but because of my enjoyment of the rest of the museum, I could walk by and not curse it.