Practical information

Opening hours

September till last Sunday of the schoolholidays in october (week 42) from 11.00 to 16.00

Prices

Accessibility

There is a ramp at the entrance to the museum so that wheelchair users have good access to the entire exhibition and there are toilet facilities for persons with wheelchairs.

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Find us by car

You can plan your route by car at Krak. Free parking is provided near the museum
Find us by public transport
Find bus- and train schedule at rejseplanen
If you come by train in Helsingør-Gilleleje direction, you need to get off the train at Kildekrog Trinbræt or Dronningmølle Stations.
Print walking directions from the station to museum here: Map

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Traktørsted – Coffe shop

At the museum is a small Coffe shop with seating for 18 people inside and approximately 30 people outdoors. Are you part of a larger company can be a good idea to book at least a week before arrival. Call by phone 4971 9177 in the museum's opening hours.

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Menu​

coffee, tea, sandwich, toast, cake, soda, beer and water

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For children

Children are most welcome at the museum accompanied by adults. There is free admission for children aged 0-18 years. Statue park is a perfect place for children and there are beautiful trees to climb on.

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Drawing table​

At the top floor of the museum building, in the room with the windows overlooking the park, there are some tables and chairs with paper and coloured pencils. If you are brave you can try to draw some of the Rudolph Tegner’s clay sketches, exhibited in the large cabinet along the wall. It is possible to use our graphic pads when youmove around between the items of the collection and draw. For very small children we have "painting book sheets" with the Tegner's sculptures that you can colour.​

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Guided Tours

Guided tours are available for museum visitors once every month during the season. The dates are posted in the calendar.
It is possible to book a guided tour of the museum's collection. The tours contain a lot of facts about Rudolph Tegner's life and his works as well as the museum's existence.
If you want to make an appointments please call museum’s office at +45 49 71 91 77 or send us an email to ​​​museum@rudolphtegner.dk.
Our guided tour costs 675 DKK + admission fee and lasts approx. 50 minutes.

It is possible to book guided tours in Danish, English, Italian and Russian​

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Rudolph Tegner (1873 – 1950)

Tegner's natural talent was boosted by the encounter with the ancient culture, when he at the age of 15 visited Acropolis and since that time the ancient world occupied him throughout his artistic life. The first major work during his study at the Academy was a Faun (1891), which is now exhibited at Charlottenborg.
After graduation from the Academy, he lived several years in Paris where he got acquainted with the symbolism and art nouveau's meandering organic ornaments. Later he visited Italy, where he was fascinated by Michelangelo's "Day and Night" and "Morning and Evening," which he described as "gigantic in form and expression, heavily dormant in their marble splendor."
Based on these ideals his often violent and theatrical expressions evoked confusion and resistance in the Danish art world and created turbulence around his person that would characterize his entire artistic career. His irrepressible visionary creativity resulted in large projects that inevitably sparked public controversy.

Between campaigns he acquired new strength and inspiration from travelling to Greece, Italy, Spain, the Near East, North Africa and France, where he had winter home and studio in the last period of life, and where recognition of his work was greater than in his homeland.

Strength and support he found also in his marriage to Elna, as it was her economic means, which allowed the creation of the monument, which has secured his works for posterity: the sculpture park and the unique museum.
In the description of The Port of Life - the project that he hoped would be his life's work – Tegner formulated what could be a slogan for all his artistic endeavours:

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"My goal was to create a hymn to Human life, from their birth to death, depicted in Stone and Bronze. I wanted to express their joys and sorrows, their love and marriage, their struggles, victories and defeats, all the way till the solitude embraces each and every of them.

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" The Port of Life had to be built up of columns that together formed a Arch over which Helios in a carriage of four horses is aiming to the Sun. Gate, we all go through. Individuals and groups of people are streaming up these aspiring columns as symbol of human aspirations . "​

Today there are 14 statues located in Statue Park:

1. King Oedipus , 1903
2. Victory, 1921
3. Earth Bound, 1898-99
4. The Nest, 1916-17
5. The thirsty Children, 1914
6. In Mulmets lap, 1915
7. Mystery of Love , 1913-18
8. Woman from the group The Rivals, 1918-19
9. Aphrodite's belt , 1924-25
10. Herakles and Wild Pig, 1919
11. Woman's torso, 1911
12. Toner , 1897
13. My wife Elna, 1912
14. Sun-maiden, 1942

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Museum

Rudolph Tegner fulfilled his dream to build a museum for his works in 1937-38. As an architect, he decided himself on the museum's design, both aesthetics and functionality, and as it was one of the earliest existing concrete buildings, where concrete was used both for construction and decorations, this museum became very visionary.
Tegner’s museum was to have large dimensions as several of the artist's works are enormous. The museum's core is octagonal and in the middle it is 11 meters to the ceiling. Around this core central part the lower exhibition halls should have been placed. For economic reasons, only two of these rooms are reality today. There are no windows overlooking the park in the museum, only a single frontal window on the first floor. The museum was to be illuminated through the glass roof only, so that museum visitors were not distracted by the beautiful nature around the museum
Tegner consciously tried to give museum’s visitors the feeling of stepping into a treasure chest, by making the entrance much smaller than the building itself. In this way, the visitor is overwhelmed by the dimensions and the light as soon as he steps inside. The museum's facade has deep parallels to ancient Greek temple buildings.

Rudolph Tegner lies under the floor of the great central hall. He was buried in an oak coffin in the 1950. Elna Tegner was cremated and her urn lies at the base of "Apollo" statue, also in the central hall.

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Support our Museum​

​RudolphTegner Museum and Statue Park are operated and owned by a private foundation, founded by Rudolph and Elna Tegner. The museums existence is based on it sown admission fee revenues and an annual grant from Gribskov Municipality.

Our museum aims to preserve museum's original spirit and keep the operation costs stable and minimal. We would like to offer our guests good experience, availability, and interesting initiatives that help to highlight Rudolph Tegner’s works and him as an artist. Therefore we are seeking additional funds for the ongoing projects in order to improve our guests' experience.

It is possible to support the museum in different ways:

• you can offer professional help or assistance to our events. (Send email to ​​​​gomard@rudolphtegner.dk)
• via donations or sponsorships

If you want to support the museum with a donation this can help our efforts to maintain the museum and to develop new activities. You are welcome to contact the museum director Luise Gomard by email: ​​​​gomard@rudolphtegner.dk to hear more about possibilities for supporting specific projects.

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