Golden Days' festivals

Each year Golden Days presents an historical festival. The festival's purpose is to enlighten, entertain and engage the residents of Copenhagen - and everyone else - in the city's history. At every festival, cultural institutions across the city participate in conveying a specific theme to a diverse audience across various genres and media. The festival's profile ranges from popular to high culture, and the ambition is to offer sophisticated and innovative communication about the city's history to everyone.


Periods in the history of Copenhagen
Golden Days' historical festivals describe different time periods in the city's history: The period between 1800 and 1850 was the focus of the first four festivals, which helped make the Danish population aware of the Danish Golden Age as an historical period. In 2002 the festival dealt with the period from 1870 to 1890 - The Modern Breakthrough - and in 2004 the focus was on Copenhagen in the 1890s. In 2006 the festival went back to Christian IV's Copenhagen. In 2008 the theme was "Copenhagen during the inter-war period - Functionalism, Free-thinking and Fascism", and in September 2009 the festival placed, for the first time, a historical perspective on a theme with the festival "Body Performance - World Champions, Wasp-like Waists and Viagra."


An umbrella for history
The festival is an umbrella organization for a wide range of museums, theatres, ensembles and other cultural organizations. Each year an artistic program of several weeks in length is put together. The program expresses the year's theme through exhibitions, concerts, debates and other activities. To ensure that the themes of the festival obtain a significant 'afterlife' well beyond the festival's actual period, the festival also publishes books, educational material and much more.

The Golden Days' historic festival receives grants from the Copenhagen Municipality and the Ministry of Culture. In addition, the festival is funded by private sponsors.
Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II is patron of the historic festival.



For more information about the festival contact:
• Festival Coordinator Mette Langeberg Lund on 35 25 33 65 or mette@goldendays.dk
• Festival Director Ulla Tofte on 35 25 33 63 or ulla@goldendays.dk.