91st DGINS Conference 2005

25 - 27 May 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark

Social Programme

- FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS (incl. accompanying persons)

25th MAY 2005

Raadhus
17:15 - 17:30 an identified bus will pick up DGINS participants and accompanying persons from Hotel Skt Petri (17:15) and Hotel The Square (17:30). Guides will pick up, by foot, at Hotel Copenhagen Strand (17:40) and 71 Nyhavn (17:40) in order to escort DGINS participants and accompanying persons to the canal boat. The canal boat will depart from Nyhavn at 17:50.
After the SPC meeting the SPC members will meet with the DGINS participants and accompanying persons at the Conference Venue - Eigtveds Pakhus.The SPC members will get onboard the canal boats and a guided tour will take place through the harbour of Copenhagen. The will depart from the venue at 18:00.

The cruise will last for about an hour and end nearby the City Hall.

19:15. Welcome buffet at Copenhagen City Hall - offered by the mayor of Copenhagen. After the buffet the participants are welcome to discover the city independently. Perhaps in Tivoli, which is just nearby.

Copenhagen City Hall is build in 1892-1905, Architect Martin Nyrop. The tower is the tallest building in Copenhagen, measuring 106 metres.





26th MAY 2005

Louisianna
All participants will depart, by buses, from the hotels at 18:00 - 18:15.

Official dinner at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, with guided tour through the exhibitions.

Buses will provide transport back to the hotels, leaving at 24:00, 0:30 and 1:00.


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.
It houses an exquisite collection of modern art by international artists such as Arp, Francis Bacon, Calder, Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Sam Francis, Giacometti, Kiefer, Henry Moore, Picasso, Rauschenberg and Warhol. 
Louisiana is not merely an experience in modern and contemporary art, but a congenial reflection of the interplay between art, architecture and landscape.





 

- FOR ACCOMPANYING PERSONS

25th MAY 2005
Social Programme participants will be picked up together with the conference participants.

Departure by bus, only at the hotels listed at "Hotel booking and addresses", between 8:15 - 8:30.
Arrival at the hotels by the end of the day, at approximately 16:30.

This day-trip will bring the accompanying persons through the beautiful northern Zeeland to see the attractions listed below:

Visiting the Karen Blixen Museum, Rungstedlund 
Karen Blixen (1885-1962) is the best known, and possibly the greatest, Danish writer of the twentieth century. Her reputation as an author rests on several books written in English under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen, including: Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Winter's Tales (1942), and Out of Africa (1938). The movie Out of Africa (1985) celebrates her life as a pioneer coffee farmer in Kenya from 1914 to 1931.

http://www.karen-blixen.dk/engelsk/museer1.html

 Karen Blixen 
   
Visiting Kronborg Castle
William Shakespeare's story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, takes place behind the walls of the castle at Elsinore.
Kronborg is therefore known throughout much of the world as the castle of Hamlet, and Elsinore as Hamlet's town.

http://www.kronborgcastle.com/
   
Visiting Fredensborg, the city of the Royal Summer Residence
Fredensborg Palace was the setting for the wedding reception when Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary got married on 14 May 2004.
Lunch is scheduled at Slusehuset, a restaurant by the shore of Lake Esrum.

http://www.ses.dk/english.php
   

Visiting Frederiksborg Castle and Castles Gardens
Frederiksborg Castle is situated in the centre of Hillerød on three islets in the Castle Lake surrounded by Frederiksborg Castle Gardens. The National History Museum at Frederiksborg Castle presents the history of Denmark and its important figures in a significant collection of portraits, historical paintings and modern art.

http://www.ses.dk/2280029 
   
   


26th May 2005
City Walk in Copenhagen (please wear walking shoes)
Starting sharply at 9:00 due to the carefully time tour.
Meeting point: at Christiansborg Slotsplads, right next to the equestrian statue of King Frederik VII, see picture to the right.

For graphical indications see "Conference locations (map)".

  
Frederik VII Monument
   

The Royal Library Garden
First stop at the city walk is The Royal Library Garden. The garden constitutes a small oasis in the heart of the city and is popular with locals and tourists all year round. Only the shallow pool in the middle of the gardens reveals that this was once the site of a harbour. Today, it is the site of blossoming beds of flowers and large shadowy trees. The silence is broken occasionally, however. The new water sculpture in the middle of the central pool spouts out cascades of water every hour on the hour.

 

 Royal Library garden
   

Guided tour to Christiansborg Castle,
Christiansborg Palace on Slotsholmen in Copenhagen was built for the country's three supreme powers: the royal power, the legislative power, and the judicial power. The premises of the Royal Family, mainly The Royal Reception Rooms, make up only a small part of the palace complex. The Danish Parliament has the majority of the palace's rooms at its disposal, while the Prime Minister's Office and the Supreme Court are also found within the palace. Besides the Reception Rooms in the palace's north wing, the Chapel and the bulk of the Riding Ground Complex are available to the Royal Family.

The Danish business community marked the occasion of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II's 50th birthday in 1990 by ordering a gift of 11 tapestries from Le Mobilier National et les Manufactures Nationales de Gobelins et de Beauvais, Paris (commonly referred to as les Gobelins). The gobelin series recounts the history of Denmark and the world, including the Viking Age, the Middle Ages, the Absolute Monarchy, the Reformation, World War II, the Present and even the Future.

http://www.ses.dk/1d50029
http://www.ses.dk/2160029

  Christiansborg castle
   

Visit to Royal Copenhagen including coffee break.
A large number of plates, cups, bowls and figurines have passed their way through the porcelain mass since the very first brushstrokes came to life in 1775 - the year where the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory first saw the light of day on the 1st of May.

Having trod this path for 225 years, an exciting trail of form, colours and passion is revealed - ready to be explored from a historical perspective.

http://www.royalcopenhagen.com/


Plates by royal copenhagen

 

Amalienborg Castle and the changing of The Royal Guard
Amalienborg, the royal couple's winter residence, is a major architectural work and probably the most outstanding piece of Rococo architecture in Denmark. Amalienborg comprises four externally uniform (but internally different) palaces encircling an octagonal courtyard, in the middle of which has been erected an equestrian statue of Frederik V - the founder of the Amalienborg Palace complex and the Frederiksstad.
At noon we will see the changing of the guard


http://www.ses.dk/1d20029

 Amalienborg
 

Lunch at Nyhavn
A popular meeting place. Running from Kongens Nytorv, a picturesque canal filled with moored sailing boats, runs down to the main harbour.

The City Walk is finished with lunch at 13:00.

 

New harbour