4000 square metres of decorated ceilings being cleaned and restored!

We are now cleaning and restoring the museum’s fantastically beautiful ceilings. Scaffolding will only be erected in two galleries at a time, so the public will still be able to see the ceilings while the work is in process over the next four years.

The ceiling in Room 21.

4000 square metres decorated by Thorvaldsen’s colleagues

The embellishment of these ceilings is the most extensive Pompeii-inspired decorative undertaking in Northern Europe and extends over almost 4000 square metres. The decorations were created at the same time as the museum was being built, from 1839 to 1848, and they extend over all the ceilings in the ground floor and first floor of the museum – altogether more than 40 galleries in addition to corridors and staircases. The ceilings were decorated by Thorvaldsen’s younger colleagues.

Thorvaldsens Museum will be open and accessible to the public during normal opening hours throughout the period.

Donation of DKK 9 million

The cleaning and restoration has been made possible by a donation of no less than DKK nine million from the A.P. Møller Foundation.

The work is being undertaken for the museum’s owner, Copenhagen Municipality, by Københavns Ejendomme and is under the supervision of the architect Charlotte Felding and the conservation firm of Bo Kierkegaard ApS.