Culture Night at SMK 2026

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Revisit magnificent works with concert tours, art talks and a huge creative workshop.

Soap bubbles, skulls and bodies in free fall. Floral arrangements, butterflies and pompous portraits. Join us when we invite you to Culture Night at SMK, where we dive into great dramas and mythical tales — and say welcome to the museum's exhibition of European Art 1300-1800.

In November 2026, the exhibition European Art 1300-1800 will close after more than 15 years — to reopen with new works and narratives in autumn 2027.

Help us say goodbye, thank you and see you again at the exhibition through baroque mini-concerts in the middle of art with Concerto Copenhagen, expert talks, tours for both young and old and a gigantic creative workshop on SMK's big stage.

Programmes

18.45-19.05/19.45-20.05/20.45-21.05/21.45-22.05

Concert tours: Birds, flowers and bodies in free fall

Join us on a musical journey as musicians from Concerto Copenhagen bring selected works to life. Together we meet the finest bird droppings, chaotic bustle and flowers in abundance.

We meet in the front hall

6.30-18.50/20.30-20.50

Conservator-talk: Not everything that glimmers is gold

It overflows with gold in the exhibition European Art 1300-1800! Learn more about how you can spot the real thing when conservator Anne Haack Christensen takes us up close to works of art interspersed with gold leaf.

We meet in the front hall

18.15-18.40/19.15-19.40/20.15-19.40

Family Tour: Baroque at Children's Height

Join us as SMK's art distributor rolls out the narrative curtain in the exhibition halls and lifts the veil on tales of fire-spewing dragons, soap bubbles and floating butterflies.

We meet in the front hall

19.30-19.50/21.30-21.50 (in English)

Curator-talk: On revisiting historical works

Listen as museum curator Michèle Seehafer uncovers some of the narratives, themes and works you will experience in the new exhibition of European Art 1300-1800.

We meet in the front hall

21.15-21.35/22.15-22.35/23.00-23.20

Guided tour: Dramatic moments

Great emotions, excessive exuberance and dramatic narratives. Join SMK's art dealer in the exhibition European Art 1300-1800 to discover distorted bodies, symbols and traces of fires and violent rescue operations.

We meet in the front hall

6pm-00.00

Creative workshop: Soap bubbles, butterflies — and skulls!

Lineups with skulls, hourglasses, seashells and peeled lemons. Unleash your creativity as we try our hand at Baroque symbols and motifs — and paint with one of the Baroque's most popular motifs: the soap bubble.

On Stage

6pm-00.00

Revisiting 'European Art 1300-1800'

Floral arrangements, butterflies and pompous portraits. Soap bubbles, skulls and bodies in free fall. Explore magnificent dramas and mythical tales before the exhibition closes on November 1st.

In 'European Art 1300-1800'

6pm-00.00

SMK in the evening

Especially tonight you can experience the museum bathed in colored light and wrapped in a dreamy sound collage. If you need an art break, you can sit down at long tables in the museum's high-ceilinged Skulpturgade or visit the museum's café.

The entire museum

Practical information

Date and time
October 9, 2026, 6pm-00pm

Venue
At SMK in Copenhagen

Price
Free admission with Culture Pass. Culture passes can be purchased on the Kulturnattens website or at 7-eleven