Ordrupgaard

One of the things my mom wanted to do while in Copenhagen was to go to Ordrupgaard, a state-owned art museum located about 8km north from the center of Copenhagen. There once was a painting by Eugene Delacroix of the lovers Frederic Chopin (the pianist) and his lover (?) George Sand - a kind of a "romance portrait". Why, when and how it happened is still a mystery today, but apparently at some point in history, this painting got split up in half. The Chopin portrait is now housed at the Louvre in Paris, and the other half, George Sand portrait is part of the collection at Ordrupgaard (why/how it ended up in Denmark of all places is also unknown). My mom wanted to see this painting.

Jonathan also had a vested interest in this museum, not so much for the art collection, but for the architecture. The new extension of the museum was designed by the award winning, world famous Iraqi architect, Zaha Hadid, and the building is regarded as one of the best architectures in Copenhagen.

We took the train and a bus to get there. It was lunch time when we arrived at the museum and we were hungry, so we went straight to the cafe, which is located in the new building. What a beautiful space it was!! For lunch, they only had a choice of either tuna or salmon sandwich, but we ordered both and they were both very good. What was nice was that there were not many people there, probably because it's a bit out of the way, and also it was raining, so we got to enjoy the space, at times, just by ourselves.

As for the painting...

Unfortunately, we couldn't see it! It was not on display at the moment. So my mom couldn't accomplish her goal, which was disappointing for sure, but to see the beautiful building and also some other great paintings at the museum still made our trip totally worthwhile.