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Greenhouses to visit in Denmark

The Verrière atlas lists 7 greenhouses in Denmark, built between 1872 and 1997.

Denmark brings together nineteenth-century glass palaces and immersive greenhouses. The Palm House of Copenhagen's botanical garden, inspired by the Crystal Palace, shelters cycads planted as early as 1824, and in the same city the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek crowned its winter garden with an iron-and-glass dome in 1906. At Gisselfeld, the 1876 Paradehuset, restored to its original plans, received a Europa Nostra award. Aarhus added a tropical dome of ETFE cushions in 2014, and as early as 1996 Randers Regnskov turned an entire zoo into a sequence of glass domes.

7Greenhouses

1872Oldest — Palmehuset

1997Newest — Sommerlunden Tropical House (formerly Bornholm Butterfly Park)

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Palmehuset, University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden

Palmehuset

🇩🇰 University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden

Inspired by the Crystal Palace, this glass palace houses a cycad planted as early as 1824.

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Paradehuset, Gisselfeld Kloster, Haslev, Zealand

Paradehuset, Gisselfeld Kloster

🇩🇰 Haslev, Zealand

The last show conservatory of its kind still in private hands in Denmark, restored from its original drawings and honoured by Europa Nostra in 2006.

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Vinterhaven, the Winter Garden of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Capital Region

Vinterhaven, the Winter Garden of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region

Planned in stone, the dome over the museum's winter garden was finally built in iron and glass, in the manner of late nineteenth-century glasshouses.

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Væksthusene, Aarhus Botanical Garden greenhouses (Tropical House), Aarhus, Central Jutland

Væksthusene, Aarhus Botanical Garden greenhouses (Tropical House)

🇩🇰 Aarhus, Central Jutland

A tropical dome clad in ETFE cushions, its shape calculated to catch the winter sun and keep out much of the summer sun.

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Randers Regnskov (Tropical Zoo), Randers

Randers Regnskov (Tropical Zoo)

🇩🇰 Randers

A zoo built entirely under glass domes, devoted to the tropical forests of Asia, Africa and America.

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Sommerlunden Tropical House (formerly Bornholm Butterfly Park), Nexø, Bornholm

Sommerlunden Tropical House (formerly Bornholm Butterfly Park)

🇩🇰 Nexø, Bornholm

A 1,000 m² glasshouse from a former Bornholm nursery, planted as a tropical forest where exotic butterflies fly free.

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Væksthuset (camellia greenhouse), Geografisk Have, Kolding

🇩🇰 Kolding, Southern Denmark

An unheated glasshouse in Kolding's botanical garden, devoted to a large camellia collection that flowers from the very start of spring.

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Architecture in Denmark

Tivoli Hjørnet (Tivoli Corner), Copenhagen (Bernstorffsgade)

Tivoli Hjørnet (Tivoli Corner)

🇩🇰 Copenhagen (Bernstorffsgade)

An undulating glass wall facing the city, planted terracotta terraces facing the garden: a pavilion that forms the new western edge of the Tivoli Gardens.

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