The King's Kunstkammer is an Internet exhibition, which is a partial reconstruction of the Royal Danish Kunstkammer which was established by King Frederik III in the mid-1600s - a collection which was broken up some 200 years later when all the pieces it contained were distributed among newly created specialist museums.
About 250 pieces have been selected from different museums. All these pieces were included in the very first Kunstkammer, and provide an insight into a Renaissance prince's view of the world. The various objects are grouped together just as they were in 1674, in 9 different rooms (called apartments, chambers or cabinets), each with their own particular contents.
The rooms are presented in different colours. For the first 4 rooms we have chosen the colours mentioned in the painter's account from 1653 - 'aurum yellow, blue, cinnabar and green'. The Cabinet of Medals was probably wood panelled, hence the brown background. The other colours are chosen on the basis of the objects of the rooms, e.g. laquer red for The East Indian Chamber.

As a visitor to the virtual Kunstkammer, you can choose the room housing the objects you wish to see, and you will be first presented with all the objects in the relevant room. By selecting the individual objects, they can be examined in more detail.
In the virtual exhibition you can thus study the 250 pieces with the information relating to them - their size, their material, origin, date, and in which museum they can be found today.
In addition you can read in more detail the story of the Kunstkammer, about King Frederik III, and the European Renaissance collections.

One special section offers the possibility of building up your own exhibition. In the virtuel museum you will find storage and exhibition rooms. In the storage you can open the boxes with objects from the Kunstkammer and in the exhibitions rooms you can place the chosen objects in show cases.
The objects in the storage are sorted in an untraditional way like 'big things', 'small things', 'round things', 'shiny things' etc.You may find the same object in various boxes which illustrates the advantage of the virtual museum - the same object can be placed in various contexts.
You can attach comments to your exhibition which can also be visited by future guests on the web site.