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There is always something fun to do for children and their families. The workshop is open throughout the museum's opening hours. Here you can examine the themes of the current exhibitions and unfold your shared experiences. There are also many fun activities that open up new ways of experiencing the art for the whole family. Children enter the museum for free.
During the Easter holidays, you can get close to nature and experience a special closeness to plants at a plant-croquis workshop. During the workshop, we will visit the Solarstalgia exhibition with an artist who will take you into the dark forest, where you will meet the plants and draw after whimsical stone sculptures. In the workshop, the croqius drawings become part of a figure that we build from beautiful and wild natural materials.
There is an Easter holiday workshop every day from 12.04.-21.04.2025. The workshop lasts 2 hours from 13:00-15:00 and is aimed at children aged 6-13 years. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Take a journey through time in the Solarstalgia exhibition and then release your coal energy in the family workshop. Here you can draw with charcoal and chalk, cut mysterious dark materials and create your very own carbon creature. Maybe it's from ancient times, the present or the future? You can also build a past or future plant hybrid. Take your sculpture home or let it move into a space in the workshop.
The Family Workshop is open throughout the museum's opening hours. On weekends, the workshop is staffed by one of our art hosts who can help you get started.
If you need a break from art, take a sensory bath in Pool, which is a different and fun way into art for children and the young at heart. Take off your shoes and throw yourself into the balls in the colourful universe. You might lose your bearings for a while but give in and discover the world from new angles.
Frederik Næblerød has moved his studio into the museum - with art materials, sofas, music and plants. Here you are invited to work in the studio at the audience tables and the audience wall, where there is paper and materials. Take a walk through Næblerød's exhibition All Walks of Life and find inspiration to try out artistic processes and techniques in the studio afterwards.
Pssst, Frederik Næblerød will be working occasionally in the studio, so you might be lucky enough to experience and feel the energy, with which he creates his works.
Take the family on an ARTstronaut tour in the Sculpture Park. We'll pretend that ARKEN is our spaceship that has landed on ‘The Mysterious Art Planet’, where you can explore all the mysterious sculptures with all your senses.
You can borrow a free ARTstronaut kit in the museum shop. The tour takes about half an hour and must be accompanied by an adult. At the end of the tour, return the kit and get your own ARTstronaut sticker.
Combine your visit to the museum with a walk in the fresh air in the Sculpture Park around the museum or down to the beach. Can you find the rocking horse, the prehistoric dagger tails or the house with the floating floor? Some sculptures might make you look at your surroundings with new eyes, others invite you to play. There are sculptures that you can crawl on or rest on, move into or reflect in.
You can borrow a trolley from the shop so that the little ones can come along too.
Take a family swing ride and fly high into the sky on SUPERFLEX' One, Two, Three, Swing!. Feel how the swings transform into a human pendulum where the energy is exchanged into a shared movement. Swings are usually designed for one person, but here you can sit three people and swing up and down together.
The installation with the large connected swings was first shown in the large turbine hall at Tate Modern in 2017.
Children of all ages are welcome everywhere at ARKEN, including in the café of course, where we offer healthy, classic children's favourites.
ARKEN has free parking. It is also free to bring bicycles on the S-train, and the bike ride from Ishøj Station (2.6 km) to the museum is an experience in itself — the red, dancing lampposts by Jeppe Hein light the way to the museum.
Frederik Næblerød will personally guide you through the process and share his techniques, methods and materials. The workshop also includes a glass of wine.
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Media personality and plant activist Anders Lund Madsen invites you to explore the secret and complex inner lives of plants.
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Eva Helene Pade (b.1997) will in 2025 present a monumental series of new works, created especially for the exhibition Forårsofret (The Rite of Spring) at ARKEN, which will contain a primal force that expresses longing, loneliness, joy and suffering. The paintings are inspired by composer Igor Stravinsky's famous ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) and choreographer Pina Bausch's interpretation of the ballet from 1975.
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During Easter, the whole family can participate in a workshop where play and creativity go hand in hand with plants, inspired by the exhibition Solarstalgia at ARKEN.
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Experience Marie Key in ARKEN's artistic universe with a wonderful 3-course menu. We are proud to present you with Marie Key's acoustic, intimate concert. Marie Keys' sensitive and fragile voice leads us through a cavalcade of musical genres, as well as new and older tracks.
+ Find out moreTake part in an exclusive watercolor workshop with artist Frederik Næblerød, where you will get the opportunity to create your very own “inner monster” on A3 paper. Under Frederik Næblerød's personal guidance, you will learn his techniques and methods while exploring your own creative side.
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Take part in a unique sculpture workshop with artist Frederik Næblerød, where you will learn how to make sculptures out of clay. Under Frederik Næblerød's personal guidance, you will learn his techniques and methods while exploring your own creative side.
+ Find out moreTake part in a unique sculpture workshop with artist Frederik Næblerød, where you will learn how to make sculptures out of clay. Frederik Næblerød will personally guide you through the process and share his techniques, methods and materials. The workshop also includes a glass of wine.
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The third exhibition in ARKEN's trilogy NATURE FUTURE will be an exhibition with the French artist Marguerite Humeau (b.1986) in collaboration with the Helsinki Art Museum. It marks Marguerite Humeau's first solo exhibition in Scandinavia, and will feature both recent and older organic and sculptural works brought to life through light and sound.
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Experience JADA on ARKEN, where music, art and gastronomy merge into an unforgettable evening with a delicious 3-course menu. With its big pop ballads and soulful R&B in a short time, JADA has established herself as one of the biggest pop stars on the Danish music scene.
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Experience Jens Jacob Tychsen in the artistic universe of ARKEN with lunch plate and cake. With the prospect of the 10th and final season of the TV2 series Badehotellet, you now have the opportunity to experience an amazing afternoon in the company of Jens Jacob Tychsen, also known as Mr. Weyse.
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We welcome you to ARKEN for an unforgettable evening with Tim Christensen and an exquisite 3-course menu. Tim Christensen is one of the most prominent figures in recent Danish rock history - first as the frontman of one of the biggest bands of the 1990s in Denmark, Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, and then as a successful solo artist.
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Take part in a unique drawing workshop with artist Frederik Næblerød, where you will learn how to draw your own self-portrait with charcoal. Frederik Næblerød will personally guide you through the process and share his techniques, methods and materials as you explore your creative side.
+ Find out moreTake part in a unique drawing workshop with artist Frederik Næblerød, where you will learn how to draw your own self-portrait with charcoal. Frederik Næblerød will personally guide you through the process and share his techniques, methods and materials as you explore your creative side. The workshop also includes a glass of wine.
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Experience the two amazing singers, Dorthe Gerlach and Pernille Rosendahl, on a magical evening where stories must be told, songs must be interpreted and new music will emerge.
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Kenneth Rasmussen (b.1972) is a self-taught artist known to many Danes from DR's documentary series 'The Originals'. He lives and works in Randers and is affiliated with Bifrost, an artist workshop for artists with special needs. Kenneth Rasmussen has previously had a solo exhibition at Randers Kunstmuseum (2022) as well as exhibited in numerous museums and exhibition venues in Sweden, France, Australia, New York, Japan and Germany, among others.
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Soirée Musique aux Chandelles is a magical and unique experience! An experience in enchanting settings with thousands of candles, all while the string trio performs great classical compositions and works.
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Anders Blichfeldt is not only the lead singer and guitarist for the cult band Big Fat Snake and composer for several of the group's tracks. Discover tracks like “Bonsoir Madam”, “No Peace Like In Heaven” and maybe we'll get an interpretation or two from Top of the Poppen.
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In May 2025, ARKEN will present an ambitious exhibition with the French artist Marguerite Humeau (b. 1986). The exhibition invites visitors into an immersive, resonant world where Humeau’s organic, sculptural works are brought to life through light and sound. Like a giant musical instrument, the works in the exhibition resonate and connect across times and places, vibrating with the rhythms of different worlds.
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Discover Denmark's rock mama, Sanne Salomonsen, and her amazing tracks like, “Love Calls”, “Voodo” and “Den små lygn”.
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