Page "Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek" Paragraph 5

In spite of the many extensions, it was finally clear the existing premises were inadequate and that a new building was needed.

On 8 March 1888 Carl Jacobsen donated his collection to the Danish State and the City of Copenhagen on condition that they provided a suitable building for its exhibition.

Copenhagen's old fortifications had recently been abandoned and a site was chosen on a ravelin outside Holcks Bastion in the city's Western Rampart, just south of the Tivoli Gardens which had been founded in 1843.

Jacobsen was displeased with the location which he found to be too far from the city centre and he had also reservations about the proximity of Tivoli which he found common.

Instead he wanted a building on the emerging new city hall square, yet in the end he accepted.