Like all civilised cities, Copenhagen has its share of great museums and heavy cultural institutions. It’s easy to take them for granted and believe you’ve seen it all after only a few visits to each place. But, let me assure you, there’s always more to see. Although the Carlsberg Glyptotek currently exhibits some beautiful Gauguin-paintings and objects, the main claim to fame is not these temporary shows of heavyweights but the permanent rooms with classical statues and objects (Rome, Greece, Egypt – the usual suspects). If you’ve busied and dizzied yourself with endless noble heads and torsos to the point of exhaustion, you might get lucky and suddenly end up at the museum’s own ”nasotheque”. This is a remarkable display of chopped off noses (plaster/stone/marble, not real ones) that brings a new twist to the concept of ”authenticity”. In the old days authenticity meant “true to life”, true to what the senses communicated (with a whole lot of vain idealisation...
