Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum

Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum is an artist museum built around a unique collection of the couple's works. Carl-Henning Pedersen donated several thousand of his and his wife's pictures to the city of Herning, which established the museum in 1976. The museum stores a total of just over 6000 works by the two artists.

The Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum was inaugurated in 1976 and originally consisted of a circular exhibition building. In 1993, the museum was expanded with a three-sided pyramid, and in 2015 the former shirt factory Angligården was connected to the other museum buildings via two new large exhibition halls underground.

Prince Henrik's sculpture collection
On Saturday 25 June 2022, large parts of Prince Henrik's popular sculpture collection were handed over to the museum. Queen Margrethe II visited the museum that day. 
Queen Margrethe II has been depositing a number of works from her private collection of the Prince's sculptures for a number of years. 

Common to the two artists, Prince Henrik and Carl-Henning Pedersen, is, among other things, that in their art they do not paint a one-to-one picture of the seen reality, but both create a deeply personal and poetic universe that is rooted in reality, but in its ultimate instance is that of fantasy and adventure. We experience it in Prince Henrik's animal figures and creatures frolicking in the borderland between reality and fable, and in Carl-Henning Pedersen's dreamy pictorial art, where time and place grow together in images of eternity.

Step into the magical worlds and be ready to wander around among mythical animals and powerful creatures in a vibrating universe.

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