While in Denmark

The first place I visited in Copenhagen was the Design Museum which was the perfect introduction. They had three exhibitions on, one about Danish design through the last century, one about the future of design and the third was the Danish design awards. The atmosphere and exhibitions were all very intriguing and exciting and i was instantly inspired.
Tivoli, the pleasure gardens opposite the design museum and next to the main train station do not open until april, but I intend to go before I leave Denmark. I had imagined a garden that victorian ladies with parasols strolled around for pleasure - but Tivoli is defiantly a theme park! Although I have been told that it is very old and very beautiful inside.
Copenhagen is all very centralised. In one day I walked around the old fort with a windmill to the north of the city, Kastellet, then down to a modern art gallery in a fabulous old building that had moved location but had huge ceilings with sloping panelled ceilings and ceiling windows. The space was amazing and it felt like a great studio. There was one piece in there that I really enjoyed it was photographs inside an apartment block all of the sitting rooms and how different people had used the space.
A walk through a landscaped small park brought me to the Statens Museum for Kunst. This gallery was a very old and impressive building with a fantastic modern extension on the back that had a wonderful feeling of space and openness. Unfortunately a lot of the permanent gallerys were closed for renovation but lunch was good. I raced from here to the Botanic gardens and fantastic victorian glass house but I didn't make it and they were shut, but it was a fantastic utilisation of space within the centre of the city. I met up with a friend of mines Dad - Arne who was an amazing host we met at the Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum of art, which had a beautiful indoor garden in the middle and this also had a wonderful modern extension. Copenhagen Cathedral is surprisingly plain on the inside but has an interesting seating arrangement! From here we walked to the royal Palace which was 4 mirrored buildings forming a square that different members of the royal family lived in. We also went up the Rundetårn (round tower) which is an observatory that is not climbed by steps but a sloping floor. Apparently when it was first built in 1701 (i think) The King ascended it by horse! Crossing over the bridge to the south of Copenhagen on to Christianhave there was a more residential feel and I had fantastic blueberry pancakes. Christiania is a separate area of Copenhagen governed by itself, it has roughly 900 inhabitants and was started in the 70's when squatters took over old military barracks and has been kept as a "social experiment" I went early in the morning and did get the true experience of food, and craft stalls, so Ill have to go back!