The Best Sculpture Parks

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is situated in Denmark on the North Zealand coast in a spacious, old park with a fine view across the Sound of Sweden.

The museum was opened in 1958 in a classicist villa. Since then the Museum has expanded and evolved into a piece of site specific architecture. The Danish architects Wilhelm Wohlert and Jørgen Bo are the creators of the functionalist style of today’s Louisiana.

The park serves as an ideal setting for displaying the Museum’s collection of modern sculptures. In addition to a fine collection of artworks displayed in the museum galleries, about 60 works are situated in the park, some of which have been placed in such a way that they relate to the buildings and are meant to be observed first from within the museum, while others occupy their own particular space in the sculpture courtyards. Still others, which need more space around them, have been individually placed in the park in relation to the trees, grass, or water, and they are works by Jean Arp, Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Henri Laurens, Joan Miró and Henry Moore.

The natural surroundings of Louisiana give a constant resonance to the visitors’ experience, and they add an extra dimension to a meeting of art and the viewer. The relationship between art, architecture and nature is omnipresent, the spirit of Louisiana.