History
The works were almost exclusively by Danish during the 19th and that’s why The National museum contains collection of paintings from Danish Golden Age. Modern Painting of the Johannes Rump's collection is donated to the National Museum in 1928 and after that the purchases of paintings or Sculpture is started in the French tradition.
Architecture
Vilhelm Dahlerup as well as G.E.W. Moller is a designer of the National museum as well as it made in the Historicist Italian Renaissance revival style. Behind the museum the large modern extension is there as well as it was designed by the Anna Maria Indrio and Mads Moller.