The Park Museum
Podcast

The Green Branch #1: Witchcraft, Horoscopes and Unicorn Horns
Witchcraft and mythical beasts! In this episode of the Park Museums’ podcast, we will travel far back in time, to the 17th century, when superstition and pondering the universe prevail in Denmark. Here we will meet King Christian IV (1577-1648), who built Rosenborg Castle, and his physician, the antiquarian Ole Worm (1588-1654), who founded Denmark's first natural history collection, which later became Natural History Museum Denmark. Today, these collections are two of the six spectacular Park Museums located around the King’s Garden in the heart of Copenhagen.

Cast: Curator at Rosenborg Castle, Peter Kristiansen, and Head of Communications and Public Engagement Programmes at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Anne Katrine Gerløff
Host: Rikke Mia Skovdal
Editor: Iben Bjurner
Intro Music: Anna Svensmark Møller

Sources: ”The King’s Astrologer - Tycho Brahe's Horoscope for Christian IV, Yearbook / Technical Museum of Denmark, Volume 46 (2000)

Language: Danish
Duration: 34:51 minutes

The Green Branch #2: Love of art: Hirschsprung's and David's Beautiful Collections

With their family fortune as their financial basis and a profound passion for art, Heinrich (1836-1908) and Pauline Hirschsprung (1845-1912) became some of Denmark's great art collectors at the end of the 19th century. The beautiful Hirschsprung Collection – their private collection of contemporary art – opened in Copenhagen in 1911, and in this episode of the Park Museums’ podcast The Green Branch, we enter this lovely realm full of cultural history.

In addition, we will learn about the "neighbour" Christian Ludvig David (1878-1960), who founded the magnificent David Collection in Kronprinsessegade just opposite the King’s Garden, not far from the Hirschsprung Collection. David was also a dedicated art collector throughout his life and passed on and cared for his fine pearls of Islamic and Danish 19th century art as if they were his children.

Cast: Rasmus Kjærboe, Curator at the Hirschsprung Collection, and Joachim Meyer, Director at the David Collection
Host: Rikke Mia Skovdal
Editor: Iben Bjurner
Intro Music: Anna Svensmark Møller
Letter read by Luise Kirsten Skov

Language: Danish
Duration: 33:06 minutes

The Green Branch #3: Female Pioneers in the Labour Movement and the Arts

Women in labour movement history and women in the arts have shared a common destiny throughout history. They have painstakingly tried to expand their opportunities beyond the usual family narrative. The Swedish baroness Jaquette Liljencrantz (1848-1920) and the Danish sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen (1863-1945) were two of the strong-willed women who acted in completely new ways in their time.

Find out what Anne Marie and Jaquette did to break with the traditional female role in this episode of the Park Museum podcast, in which SMK – National Gallery of Denmark and the Workers Museum, two of the six spectacular Park Museums, take centrestage together with the two interesting ladies.

Cast: Rikke Lie Halberg, Historian and Museologist at the Workers Museum, and Mathilde Schytz Marvit, Founder and Director of Besyv
Host: Rikke Mia Skovdal
Editor: Iben Bjurner
Intro Music: Anna Svensmark Møller

Language: Danish
Duration: 35:11 minutes

The Green Branch: A Short Audio Tour of the Park Museums

Meet the six spectacular Park Museums in this short audio tour in English and get introduced to their fascinating history. The six museums are located in the heart of Copenhagen near three leafy parks, making a visit to them a sustainable choice as you can reach them all on foot from Nørreport Station, for instance. Buy a joint ticket to the museums and get 50% off the standard admission fees.

Narrator: Dawn Florinda Wall
Producer: Rikke Mia Skovdal
Editor: Iben Bjurner
Intro Music: Anna Svensmark Møller

Language: English
Duration: 16:25 minutes