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In recent years, Royal Copenhagen acquired Georg Jensen in 1972, incorporated with Holmegaard Glass Factory in 1985, and finally Bing & Grøndahl in 1987. Royal Copenhagen was a part of a group of Scandinavian companies, Royal Scandinavia, together with Georg Jensen, and was owned by a Danish private equity fund, Axcel.
Royal Danish Naval Museum: Christianshavn: Copenhagen: Military: History and artefacts of the Royal Danish Navy: Royal Life Guards Museum: City Centre: Copenhagen: Art: Located in Rosenborg Barracks, history and artefacts of the Royal Life Guards from 1658 to the present day Royal Stables and Carriage Museum: Slotsholmen: Copenhagen: History
Bing & Grøndahl was founded on 15 April 1853 by Grøndahl, who was a figurine maker for the Royal Danish Porcelain Factory, and the Bing brothers, who were art and book dealers. The factory was located on the corner of Vesterbrogade and Rahbek Allé in the Vesterbro area, at that time outside the city of Copenhagen , Denmark.
Imperial Porcelain Factory: Saint-Petersburg: Russia: Also known as the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory 1750: Royal Crown Derby: Derby: England: Year of establishment disputed with 1757 1751: Royal Worcester: Stoke-on-Trent: England: Acquired by Portmeirion in 2009 1755: Royal Copenhagen: Copenhagen: Denmark: Also known as the Royal Porcelain ...
Aluminia was a Danish factory of faience or earthenware pottery, established in Copenhagen in 1863. Philip Schou (1838-1922) was the founding owner of the Aluminia factory in Christianshavn . In 1882, the owners of Aluminia purchased the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory.
The Museum of Copenhagen was founded in 1901. Starting in 1925, the museum had a permanent exhibition in the attic of Copenhagen City Hall.. As the collections grew, the attic became too small and in 1956 the museum moved to the former building of the Royal Copenhagen Shooting Society (Det Kongelige Kjøbenhavnske Skydeselska) in Vesterbro.
The company E. Nobel constructed a tobacco factory at the site.in 1860 [1] but Aluminia acquired the site in 1868 to build a new faience manufactury which opened in 1870. In 1882, Aluminia purchased the Royal Porcelain Factory which was based in Købmagergade but in 1884 joined its new owner at their site in Frederiksberg.
The porcelain factory was in 1780 taken over by the Crown and from then on known as the Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Den Kongelige Porcelænsfabrik, bnow Royal Copenhagen). The scientist Georg Forchhammer , who headed the porcelain factory's dye laboratory, resided in the building from 1825 to 1829.