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Denmark's first public museum is also its most colourful grave. Thorvaldsens Museum on Bertel Thorvaldsens Plads, beside Christiansborg on Slotsholmen, opened on 18 September 1848 as the world's first museum devoted to a single artist: the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, who left Copenhagen for Rome in 1796, returned in 1838 as Europe's most celebrated living artist, and donated his entire collection - sculptures, models, paintings and antiquities - to the Danish people. The building is half the e...