Interiører på Frederiksborg

Interiors at Frederiksborg Frederiksborg, the royal castle in Hillerød, north of Copenhagen, was built at the beginning of the l7th century by King Christian IV as his most resplendent residence. It was used as a royal residence for over 200 years until fire destroyed most of its interior in 1859. During the following decades, the castle was rebuilt and the interiors gradually restored. Finally, on the initiative of the founder of the Carlsberg Breweries, J.C. Jacobsen, the castle was converted into a museum of Danish National History in 1878. Visitors to the museum today, are perhaps unaware that they are passing through rooms dating from vastly different periods of time. In fact, the interior comprises rooms that are of fundamentally different in that they, range from original interiors that survived the fire of 1859 to those that were restored following the fire, and finally to the museum-interiors created gradually from 1878 onwards. Through an examination of these stages of restoration and development, this article attempts to broaden the conceptual framework for the understanding of museum interiors.