#nationalmuseet

[ferretteeth]

I saw this painting in the museum a few days ago and with all my access to the internet and nakey adult content I was just stopped in my tracks by her. Can you imagine what this must've done to people in the 1640s.

[chaotic-historian]

Hey National Museum of Denmark, I fixed ur sign, how about writing how you got all your First Nations stuff, and also which tribes they're from? Thx

[thepastisalreadywritten]

13 September 2024

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L'ambra dal Baltico alla Siria: ricercatori danesi trovano (rari) monili di tremila anni fa nell’antica Hama

ARCHEOLOGIA | Dal Baltico alla Siria, lungo le vie dell'ambra: ricercatori danesi trovano (rari) monili di tremila anni fa nell’antica Hama Lo studio degli archeologi del Nationalmuseet di Copenaghen

Elena Percivaldi Intrigante scoperta nella città antica di Hama, in Siria. Un team di archeologi danesi, riprendendo in mano i materiali di uno scavo effettuato negli anni ’30 del Novecento che aveva riportato alla luce oltre 1.600 tombe risalenti a circa 3.000 anni fa, ha notato un dettaglio di grande interesse. In una delle urne funerarie, contenente i resti cremati di una donna e un bambino,…

[miathologist]

Rings from the National Museum of Denmark

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Dont do that

Uroksen by night by Nationalmuseet on Flickr.

Aurochs skeleton

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Eurystheus being scared of the Erymanthian Boar and hinding in his pithos

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Evening Dress

c. 1916

made by Daverkosen’s master tailor Børre-Lorenzen for his daughters wedding

Nationalmuseet

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Danish Royal Family - The Queen attends the Specialists’ 20th anniversary at Nationalmuseet Københavb (Photo by Jesper Sunesen) | April 09, 2024

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Strettweg Cult Wagon, c. 6th century BCE, Hallstatt, Steiermark, Austria. Source: World History Encyclopedia

Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction

Celtic art is, by and large, an under-discussed and misunderstood subject.

Detail of Celtic sword and scabbard, c. 60 BCE, Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Basse Yutz Flagon, c. mid-5th century BCE, La Tène, Basse Yutz, France, Source: The British Museum

Battersea Shield, c. 350-50 BCE, La Tène, Battersea, London. Source: The British Museum

Inside of the Gundestrup Cauldron, c. 150-1 BCE, La Tène, Himmerland, Denmark, Source: Nationalmuseet København Danmark.

Desborough Mirror, c. 50 BCE-50 CE, La Tène, Desborough, England, Source: The British Museum.

[enigma-chiffriermaschine]

(!) For educational purposes only.

Source: Nationalmuseet. Film: Omkring Danmarks Befrielse (41:40).

After the German forces in Denmark surrendered to the Allies, Dr. Best sought the Freedom Council’s protection. Here he’s guarded by resistance fighters as he leaves Dagmarhus. May 5, 1945.

[ghostsofhistory]

København / Copenhagen.

Frihedskæmpere på lastbiler i Store Kongensgade i København i dagene efter befrielsen d. 5. maj 1945.

Dengang: Maj 1945, ukendt fotograf. Nu: 2. november 2024, Jens Voigt. Samling: Nationalmuseet, Danmark.

Resistance fighters on trucks in Store Kongensgade in Copenhagen in the days after the liberation on May 5, 1945.

Then: May 1945, unknown photographer. Now: November 2, 2024, Jens Voigt. Collection: National Museum, Denmark.

Følg på / follow on Instagram: @ghosts_of_history https://www.instagram.com/ghosts_of_history/

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‘A Beacon of Hope’: Indigenous People Reunited With Sacred Cloak In Brazil

Denmark Sends 300-Year-Old Feathered Cloak Considered An Ancestor By Tupinambá de Olivença to Rio

— Tiago Rogero | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 | Thursday 12 September 2024

The Cloak will be Publicly Unveiled at a Ceremony on Thursday. Photograph: Niels Erik Jehrbo/Nationalmuseet

The scene resembled a funeral: seven Indigenous people, overcome with tears, gathered around a loved one resting in a coffin-like wooden box. Instead of grief, however, it was a moment of celebration: the long-awaited reunion between the Tupinambá de Olivença people and a sacred feathered cloak that was taken from Brazil at least 335 years ago.

The relic – which the Indigenous people consider not as an object but as an ancestor – had been at Denmark’s National Museum until July, when it was sent to Rio de Janeiro.

Chief Jamopoty and six other Representatives of the Tupinambá de Olivença people reunited for the first time with the cloak taken from Brazil at least 335 years ago. Photograph: Tiago Rogero/The Guardian

It will be publicly unveiled at a ceremony at Brazil’s National Museum on Thursday attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But the first private encounter between the Tupinambá of Olivença and the cloak took place on Sunday, in an intimate moment witnessed by the Guardian.

The reunion had been eagerly anticipated: after the cloak’s return to Brazil, the Indigenous group had complained that they were not initially given the chance to perform their reception rituals for the sacred relic, which they refer to in the same terms they would to a person.

“We spoke to him, and he responded,” said Cacique Maria Valdelice Amaral de Jesus, 62, known as Jamopoty Tupinambá.

About 200 Tupinambá de Olivença made the 1,250km journey from their land in Bahia to Rio de Janeiro and have been camping near the National Museum. Photograph: Tiago Rogero/The Guardian

Jamopoty said the cape had returned to resolve the numerous land disputes threatening Indigenous communities across Brazil, adding: “He said we must have our lands demarcated.”

She was joined in the temperature-controlled room by six other representatives of the Tupinambá de Olivença, who for about 20 minutes prayed and spoke to the cloak, which lay under an oxygen-free glass dome, as technicians carefully monitored the humidity.

Jamopoty’s remarks were recorded by the documentary director Carina Bini who, with the Indigenous leader’s consent, shared them with the Guardian.

“You’re lying down, but you’ll stand up. We came to visit you,” she said.

“I don’t even have words. It’s the most beautiful thing I have ever seen,” she said as tears ran down her face, which was painted with the red dye of annatto seeds.

Her partner, Averaldo Rosario Santos, told the cloak that its return was “a beacon of hope for all the Indigenous peoples that remain in this once-invaded Brazil.”

Maria Valdelice Amaral de Jesus, 62, known as Jamopoty Tupinambá. Photograph: Tiago Rogero/The Guardian

Tupinambá cloaks – typically made from thousands of scarlet ibis feathers – were used as ceremonial vestments by coastal Indigenous peoples, said Amy Buono, an assistant professor of art history at Chapman University.

“These capes probably functioned as supernatural skins, transferring the vital force from one living organism to another,” said Buono, who has studied this cloak and 10 others still in European museums in Denmark, Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland.

“Tupinambá capes were some of the most sought-after artefacts in the early 16th century,” she said. Several Tupinambá cloaks were worn by the courtiers during a 1599 procession at the court of the Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart.

The newly returned cloak was first inventoried by Denmark in 1689 as part of the collection of Frederick III, possibly after it was taken from Brazil by Dutch forces, which occupied the state of Pernambuco from 1630 to 1654.

“When the cloak was taken from us, it weakened our community,” said Jamopoty.

A Parade in Stuttgart at the Court of Duke Frederick I of Wurttemberg in 1599. Photograph: Album/Alamy

The Tupinambá de Olivença’s fight for the cloak’s repatriation began in 2000 when it was loaned for an exhibition in São Paulo. Jamopoty’s mother, Nivalda Amaral de Jesus, who was known as Amotara, visited the exhibit and demanded its return to Brazil.

At the time, the Tupinambá were not even officially recognised as an Indigenous people – they were even described as extinct in history books.

Under pressure from Amotara (who died in 2018) and other leaders, the Tupinambá de Olivença were finally recognised in 2001 by the Brazilian government.

Eight years later, the first step was taken towards demarcating their territory – an area of 47,000 hectares spanning three municipalities in Bahia.

Since then, however, the Brazilian government has made no further progress in mapping their territory, which has led to land grabs by cocoa farmers and tourism developers.

Indigenous Leaders Frustrated Despite Cloak’s Return to Brazil after 300 Years! Denmark returns artefact but Tupinambá leaders say they were prevented from performing the necessary rituals to receive sacred relic. Cloak is made with about 4,000 Red Feathers of the Scarlet Ibis Bird was first inventoried by Denmark in 1689, but some believe it was taken from Brazil nearly 50 years before. Photograph: Niels Erik Jehrbo/Nationalmuseet

‘We Wanted To Perform Our Rituals, With Songs and Incense Using Our Herbs … It would have been a Special Moment for Strengthening Our Identity,’ said the Chief of Tupinambá de Olivença People. Photograph: Niels Erik Jehrbo/Nationalmuseet

About 200 Tupinambá de Olivença made the 1,250km journey to Rio to receive the cloak, camping near the National Museum, which is still being rebuilt after a huge fire destroyed about 85% of its collection in 2018.

The museum’s director, Alexandre Keller, said the cloak would go on display to the public when the museum reopens in April 2026. Until then, it will be available only to researchers and Indigenous people.

There is no indication that any other Tupinambá cloak will be repatriated but Buono argued that they should all return to Brazil: “These capes were collected by Europeans to be displayed as curiosities and studied for their materials.

“But for the Tupinambá these were, and continue to be, sacred, living forces. Their presence in Brazil will be an extremely important marker of communal identity and evidence for land rights and other legal matters,” she said.

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Green chemise dress with apron

Early 1800s, Napoleonic era

The cut of the chemise dress was simple. This meant that more women could sew their own dresses. The common people, who could not afford to go to a tailor, therefore had the opportunity to follow fashion to a greater extent. The green chemise dress was probably used both for everyday life and parties.

The chemise dress comes with a white apron. The white apron was probably used for parties, while the variegated one was used for everyday life.

Nationalmuseet, Denmark

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Carle Vanloo

A River God

Nationalmuseet, Stockholm

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Brooch C6605

A different colouring i did for a print. I wish i had the patience to draw these again. They are a lot of fun but take so so much time.

Object C6605 in the Danish��Nationalmuseet