Picnic - The Museum Café

Picnic serves tasty light lunches, desserts, coffee, and other beverages.

The café is situated with a view of the Winter Garden. Here, you can sit and enjoy the view of the greenery.

Picnic has the Organic Cuisine Label in silver.

When Carl Jacobsen opened the Glyptotek in 1897, the idea was not solely to give the people of Copenhagen a new art museum. It was also to provide them with an oasis, the centre of which would be the lush greenery of the Winter Garden: a place to give each visitor the chance to unwind from the daily grind and make the visit a pleasure with no obligations.

In 2018 Lasse Askov, Michelin chef and entrepreneur, opened Picnic. His thoughts behind the opening of Picnic were, in line with Carl Jacobsen himself, that guests should be able to enjoy a 'picnic' in the Glyptotek's winter garden all year round – even when the weather is gray and unforgiving outside.

Picnic serves modern food made from the finest ingredients in menus that change with the seasons.

The café’s name is found in the French language (pique-nique in French, and later picnic in English).

The Glyptotek is an old building and subject to a listed building which means that the museum is not optimally appointed for, for instance, wheelchair users, which means, among other things, that unfortunately there are stairs to the café. Naturally we do what we can to make the café as accessible as possible for all.

Therefore, we ask all wheelchair users to book a table in the café prior to you visit no later than one day in advance and state in the comment box ‘wheelchair user’ when booking.

Please contact us at picnic@glyptoteket.dk if you have inquiries.

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