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The Museum is building
Since the autumn of 2010, the Danish Railway Museum has been building a new balcony extending across parts of the exhibition hall, as well as a connecting tower with a stairway and a lift.
The balcony, which will be opened to the public on 15 June, comprises three sections: an area that which will initially be used for special exhibitions; a block with toilets; and, finally, a flexible area where it is possible to hold small special exhibitions, lectures, café activities, etc.
The tower with stairway and lift is expected to be completed during the course of June.
After this, the surfacing in the area around the tower will be re-established.
Once the building project is complete, our possibilities of organising small special exhibitions will be vastly improved and it will also be easier and better to hold special events in the rear section of the museum. Access for viewing the workshop from a special section of the balcony will also be set up. Access to toilets from the balcony is a long-held wish. And the new lift greatly improves the possibilities for persons with disabilities to move about in the museum.
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A Day Out with Thomas and Friends at the Danish Railway Museum
The British “Thomas the Tank Engine” visited the Danish Railway Museum during a long public-holiday weekend, from 29 April to 2 May. In spite of bad weather, the event was a huge success with more than 10,000 visitors enjoying the blue Thomas locomotive, Thomas’s Danish friend Hansine, the play area, face-painting, Thomas films, the Fat Controller, Thomas games and much more. We are considering inviting Thomas to visit us again during the same national public holiday in 2011.
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A model of the Danish Railway Museum
In August 2004, the museum celebrated its 50th anniversary of receiving the first MY diesel locomotive. On this occasion, the museum’s own MY 1101 was visited by sister locomotives from Norway, Belgium, Luxemburg – and even all the way from Hungary. In addition, a large number of full-sister and half-sister diesel locomotives came to the gathering from Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and the entire event was one of the Museum’s biggest successes in recent years, with visits from all over Europe.
The very expensive trip for the Hungarian locomotive was sponsored by the Museum and by Klaus Korbacher of Nurnberg, Germany. And Klaus Korbacher – or “Nohab-Pappi” as he likes to call himself (after the Swedish factory which built the MY locomotives) – recently donated a distinguished gift to the Museum to commemorate the big diesel gathering in 2004. The gift is an amazingly detailed model of the museum’s roundabout in 1:220 scale, also known as scale Z. The model was built by Iván István, Korbacher’s Hungarian friend, and depicts the situation during the gathering in August 2004 when all of the many diesel locomotives were lined up around the roundtable together with the large number of visitors, including Korbacher and the Hungarian locomotive crew – as well as the mini-train operating at the museum, the Hungarian’s sleeping car, the garden railway and just about any other detail imaginable. The model is now on display in the museum.
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The Art of the Poster – Poster Art from London Transport
For many years, the London Underground – and the it’s successors London Transport and Transport for London – adhered to a principle of commissioning the best artists and designers of the day to make its posters.
Many of them are represented in the London Transport Museum’s enormous collection. In 2008, the best works were presented at a special retrospective exhibition in London entitled “The Art of the Poster – A Century of Design”. The exhibition subsequently travelled to Dresden.
From 15 June – 15 September 2010, “The Art of the Poster: Poster Art from London Transport” will be presented at the Danish Railway Museum.
As in the original version, the exhibition includes a large number of the original works of art, but an appreciable number of printed posters have been added to the version of the exhibition presented at the Danish Railway Museum – enabling spectators to follow the process from the creation of the work of art to the printing process. The theme is also underpinned by documentary material about the various artists. The exhibition presents an astounding variation of materials, styles and techniques.
Further details here
Download the exhibition poster here
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