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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.
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: The Danish royal family's stables and collection of carriages at Christiansborg Palace: Rudolph Tegner Museum: Dronningmølle: Gribskov: Art
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.
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. [2]
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.
The Matthias Hansen House (Danish: Matthias Hansens Gård), formerly also known as the Schoustrup House (Danish: Schoustrups Gård), is a Renaissance-style townhouse on Amagertorv (No. 6) in central Copenhagen, Denmark. Built in 1616, it is one of few buildings of its kind which survived the Copenhagen Fires of 1728 and 1795.
Vase, 1902-06 The Aluminia factory mark before 1969 After 1969: The Royal Copenhagen Fajance mark. 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.
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.